--- 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." altloc: - http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10424/ - http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/chineseroom.html - http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/chineseroom.doc chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: 'Searle, John. R. (1980) Minds, brains, and programs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3): 417-457 http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/04/84/bbs00000484-00/bbs.searle2.html' confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - 63 creators_name: - family: Harnad given: Stevan honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2003 date_type: published datestamp: 2005-02-02 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/40/75 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 4075 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/4075/1/chineseroom.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: inpress issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'searle, "chinese room argument," "strong AI," computations, cognition, turing test, computationalism, symbol grounding' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:50 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 4 pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: Encyclopedia of Philosophy publisher: MacMillan refereed: FALSE referencetext: |- Burns, E. 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