> The Chinese Room argument is a great thought experiment for understanding why the computational model is an inadequate explanation of consciousness and qualia

> The Chinese Room argument is a great thought experiment for understanding why the computational model is an inadequate explanation of consciousness and qualia. To be as accurate as possible with respect to the primary source [0], the Chinese room thought experiment was devised as a refutation of "strong AI," or the position that the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind, in the sense that computers given the right programs can be literally said to understand and have other cognitive states. Searle's position? Rather, whatever purely formal principles you put into the computer, they will not be sufficient for understanding, since a human will be able to follow the formal principles without understanding anything. [...] I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. [0] https://home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/382/readings/482/searle.minds.brains.programs.bbs.1980.pdf https://home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/382/readings/482/searle.mind...