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This is what the Chinese room thought experiment is intended to prove: the Chinese room has syntax (because there is a man in there moving symbols around). The Chinese room has no semantics (because, according to Searle, there is no one or nothing in the room that understands what the symbols mean).
The Chinese Room (formerly Thechineseroom) is a British video game developer based in Brighton that is best known for exploration games. [2] The company originated as a mod team for Half-Life 2 , based at the University of Portsmouth in 2007, and is named after John Searle 's Chinese room thought experiment.
so searle doesn't understand chinese, but the program does; what is the big deal ? that is like saying you can't do sign language cause your hands don't understand ASL I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be rude, but this seems like a total waste of time; I must be missing something — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.245.17.105 22:12, 1 March 2017 (UTC) []
The Chinese Room is a 1968 film directed by Albert Zugsmith. [1] It starred Guillermo Murray, Elizabeth Campbell, Carlos Rivas, and Cathy Crosby. It was based on a novel by Vivien Connell. [2] According to Cathy Crosby, she became ill during the filming and had to swim to shore from the boat they were rehearsing on. [3]
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The China Room looking southeast during the administration of Bill Clinton. At right is a painting of Grace Coolidge by Howard Chandler Christy. White House Ground Floor showing location of the China Room. The room in 1918 during the Wilson administration, looking northwest, when it was called the Presidential Collection Room.
The Chinese Room turned to the Indie Fund for finances, who were hesitant at first, but after playing a demo, agreed to fund the project. [12] [13] The Fund's Ron Carmel stated "As soon as people started playing it, the tone of the conversation just completely shifted, and people were very much in favor of supporting this project". [13]
Chinese home furniture evolved independently of Western furniture into many similar forms, including chairs, tables, stools, cupboards, cabinets, beds and sofas. Until about the 10th century CE, the Chinese sat on mats or low platforms using low tables, but then gradually moved to using high tables with chairs. [2]