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abstract: "Summary of Searle's \"Chinese Room Argument\" showing that cognition cannot be just computation. Searle implements a computer programme that can pass the Turing Test in Chinese. Searle does not understand Chinese in doing so, hence neither does the computer."
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keywords: 'searle, "chinese room argument," "strong AI," computations, cognition, turing test, computationalism, symbol grounding'
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