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The centerpiece of Searle's argument is a thought experiment known as the Chinese room. [3] The thought experiment starts by placing a computer that can perfectly converse in Chinese in one room, and a human that only knows English in another, with a door separating them.
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.
The point illustrated by the Chinese room was not that the system did not constitute any form of consciousness, according to Searle, but that "[the man in the Chinese room] does not understand Chinese at all, because the syntax of the program is not sufficient for the understanding of the semantics of a language, whether conscious or unconscious."
Other than that, yeah, Searle is mostly wasting everyone's time. Also "Chinese" isn't a language, but that's beside the point.--ScreamingRobot 07:19, 19 June 2017 (UTC) I agree with your main point, but I'd say that Chinese actually is a language. The word refers to Standard Chinese, also known as Mandarin, or, rarely, Standard Mandarin.
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Millie, Barbara Bush's dog in the China Room. The China Room is one of the rooms on the Ground Floor of the White House, the home of the president of the United States. The White House's collection of state china is displayed there. The collection ranges from George Washington's Chinese export china to Barack Obama's
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 ]