> Few people truly understand the import of Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment If you are talking about the AI community, this just isn't true. I have

> Few people truly understand the import of Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment If you are talking about the AI community, this just isn't true. I have a degree in Cognitive Science, and I took a class with John Searle as an undergrad. Chinese Room was hammered away at in intro to philosophy and cogsci 101 classes, people understand it just fine. For some reason armchair philosophers seem to find it fascinating, but it fundamentally misses the point has largely been ignored in modern times for good reason.