This reminds me of Searle's Chinese Room paradox. Imagine you had an English speaking person providing responses to mandarin stimuli in accordance with a funct

This reminds me of Searle's Chinese Room paradox. Imagine you had an English speaking person providing responses to mandarin stimuli in accordance with a function that mapped every input of mandarin words to a mandarin output. Most people would agree that he doesn't really 'understand' mandarin, even though he can 'converse' fluently in it.