Chinese room

Chinese Room Experiment: • Searle, who has no knowledge of Chinese, is locked in a room with a large batch of Chinese writing (the script). He is given a 2nd batch (the story) and a 3rd batch (the questions) with a set of rules in English. These batches allow him to correlate the symbols to one another in previous sets and give responses back with Chinese symbols (the answers). • Searle argues that just because he answered the questions correctly in Chinese, it does not mean that he understands…

the Chinese Room. The thought experiment begins with a monolingual…

earn the love of Monica, his human mother. Dealing with the idea of artificial intelligence and the question of whether or not a machine can have a mind, this film touches on the philosophy of John. R Searle - whose main thought experiment, The Chinese Room, argues that no matter how a computer acts, there is no way that the computer could have the mind or consciousness to understand what it outputs; a computer is nothing more than a machine that is able to act out its programming. Although…

He could insist that premise three of his detractors argument was false, that the luminous room argument demonstrated nothing about the nature of light, and that an ongoing research program which investigated the relationship between of both these phenomena was required in order to settle the dispute. In the same manner, a proponent of artificial…

On the question whether machines can think, Descartes and Turing are in strong disagreement. Evaluate the arguments on either side. Does Searle's 'Chinese Room' argument help resolve the debate? The ‘thinking machine’ debate raises numerous philosophical questions on the nature of thinking and how a machine could replicate the way our brains think. With advances in technology, the idea of building a machine that can replicate a brain is somewhat plausible, but this still may be a long way off.…

called Minds, Brains, and Programs, in which he uses a thought experiment to test the Schank’s program; the program aims to mimic the human’s ability to comprehend stories. The experiment Searle uses to test this theory of the mind is known as the “Chinese Room” thought experiment. The thought experiments, the objections, and the replies given in his article also enable us to draw conclusions about Turing’s “imitation game”. In this critical response, I will consider Searle’s refutation of the…

in following steps: • A machine and a human are placed in distinct rooms apart from the second human being who will be acting as an interrogator. • Interrogator is allowed to ask different questions of any type to a machine and a human being in a written format without face to face communication. • The job of an interrogator is to distinguish between machine and actual human being based on the answers he got from two distinct rooms. • The job of a machine is to fool the interrogator by behaving…

criticisms of the turing test are: The Chinese Room criticism and the Blockhead criticism. 2 The Chinese Room argument closely relates to the Turing test. Published by John Searle in 1932, the thought experience describes a situation where Searle is locked in a room and is then passed Chinese characters under the door. Searle does not understand any Chinese, but by manipulating symbols and numerals and matching them with the symbols and numerals he has in the room, Searle is capable of correctly…

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…

to this chapter were the arguments and objections that were trying to answer the following question “Could Machines Think?”. These arguments consisted of the Piecemeal-Replacement Argument, The Tipping Point Objection, The Turing Test, and the Chinese Room argument. This chapter is composed out off arguments and objections that are trying to prove that robots can think. The Piecemeal-Replacement Argument stated that machines could think, and it involved an unrealistic story, which…