Dancing with Pixies: Strong Artificial Intelligence and Panpsychism
Views into the Chinese Room August 22, 2002 Mark Bishop
Abstract In 1994 John Searle stated (Searle 1994: 11-12) that the Chinese Room Argument (CRA) is an attempt to prove the truth of the premise: led him to the conclusion that ‘programs are not minds’ and hence that computationalism, the idea that the essence of thinking lies in computational processes and that such processes thereby underlie and explain conscious thinking, is false. The argument...