The Chinese Room argument is one of the most fallacious arguments ever offered and is rejected by all experts. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/12/21/the-

The Chinese Room argument is one of the most fallacious arguments ever offered and is rejected by all experts. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/12/21/the-mystery-of-consciousness-an-exchange/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/12/21/the-mystery-of-c... "For [John Searle's] part, he has one argument, the Chinese Room, and he has been trotting it out, basically unchanged, for fifteen years. It has proven to be an amazingly popular number among the non-experts, in spite of the fact that just about everyone who knows anything about the field dismissed it long ago. It is full of well-concealed fallacies. By Searle’s own count, there are over a hundred published attacks on it. He can count them, but I guess he can’t read them, [...]"