> How does this follow from what I said? You said "humans are not threatened by the former". Not threatened implies that they can't be harmful. >The implicit

> How does this follow from what I said? You said "humans are not threatened by the former". Not threatened implies that they can't be harmful. >The implicit (philosophic) question behind the Chinese Room experiment is; where does meaning come from? What imbues meaning to the meaningless symbols that computers process\? This is an old, unanswered philosophic question. I implied it in my answer but I will make it explicit; it comes from our perceptual awareness of existence via the senses. I don't see why that would imply anything at all about the safety of machines.