ewe3_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Erdman West) (08/24/90)
You are a professor of Chinese. You give the Chinese Room the final exam
for your most difficult course, and it passes with flying colors. Does it
>understand< Chinese? Well, ummm, lets debate that for a few millenia. It
earns an A though, and it didn't even have to study! I'll hire a Chinese
room to act as my translator and interpreter anyday. Whether or not it
understands (whatever the hell people want that to mean) is moot. I'll be
back with a more complete version of this argument.
Scott West
A simulation of a real human being, but my parents love me anyway.