Searle's Argument For The Existence Of Intelligent Computers

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According to Searle the Chinese Room experiment is a strong argument for the existence of intelligent computers or artificial intelligence (AI). The argument essentially states that if both a human and AI were in the same situation, the same outcome would occur. Therefore, artificial intelligence have the same cognitive capabilities and humans. Searle states that a strong AI is a computer that is not only a tool in the study of the mind but also a mind itself. By having a mind itself, a computer can sense, under the right programs, an understanding of what is happening in its situation while also having other cognitive states like this.
Searle also gives an answer to the possibility of a brain simulator reply, system's reply, and combination

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