The title first made me think this was an account of how someone constructed a “Chinese room” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room http://en.wikipedia.org

The title first made me think this was an account of how someone constructed a “Chinese room” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room), a room which as a system performs calculations like a computer, appearing to think. That might have interested me more than this article did.