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I don’t think the “Chinese Room” is supposed to necessarily be pure lookup. The point is that the person is the only one doing stuff, and they don’t understand
by drdeca 4y ago
I don’t think the “Chinese Room” is supposed to necessarily be pure lookup. The point is that the person is the only one doing stuff, and they don’t understand Chinese, and so there’s nothing understanding Chinese. This doesn’t at all use the instructions in the room being just a static lookup table.
- foldr 4y agoIndeed. IIRC Searle’s point is that any finite approximation of a Turing Machine (at least if defined over finite inputs) can in principle be replaced by a ginormous look up table. But if it matters, the person in the Chinese room can of course make notes on scraps of paper and implement a system more like a Turing machine.