The standard argument against the chinese room is that if the 'symbols' are at lower level, audio, video stimuli, and you have enough scale, then you can imagin

The standard argument against the chinese room is that if the 'symbols' are at lower level, audio, video stimuli, and you have enough scale, then you can imagine intelligence, emerging somehow. Qualian chauvinism. The ‘observer’ field doesn’t have to be locally or real-ly connected. E.g. a current is real, but it doesn’t flow through a real-connected surface. Chinese room is conscious and intelligent by definition if the above is true, just not human-like conscious and intelligent. The juice of this question is that we may want to determine it in a practical binary sense, when there may be a spectrum or an entire space of it. Sadly it can all boil down to a boring “shut up and interact” principle again.