A Critical Examination of Searle's Chinese Room Thought Experiment
Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences December 26, 2024 Zhuoya Tian
Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment argues that computers cannot understand language, but this view has been challenged from multiple perspectives. According to critics, comprehension entails a relationship to consciousness and the outside world in addition to manipulating symbols. There is little evidence to support Searle's denial of machine intentionality, and functionalism, which...