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Chinese Room argument

Chinese Room argument The Chinese Room argument is a philosophical challenge to the idea that computation alone produces genuine understanding.

The Chinese Room argument is a philosophical challenge to the idea that computation alone produces genuine understanding. It uses a scenario in which symbols are manipulated by rules without access to their meaning, to argue that isolated symbol processing may imitate language use without true semantic understanding.