1. Humanoid Robots
Searle's reply to my argument, that consciousness lies within a beings understanding and awareness of self, would lend itself to his Chinese Room example. This example refers to a scenario where a man is locked in a room and given a large batch of Chinese writings. The man is also given a set of instructions in English on relating the Chinese symbols to another set of symbols, along with rules on how to answer back with Chinese symbols. ... Searle's argument here is that the man doesn't really understand Chinese; the man "produces the answers by manipulating uninterpreted for...
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