Searle's experiments with thought

Philosophy of Science 53 (June):271-9 (1986)
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Abstract

A critique of several recent objections to John Searle's Chinese-Room Argument against the possibility of "strong AI" is presented. The objections are found to miss the point, and a stronger argument against Searle is presented, based on a distinction between "syntactic" and "semantic" understanding.

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