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A paper which looks at the Chinese Room Experiment and its relevance to the development of artifical intelligence and the relationship between AI and human cognitive processes.
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Searles Chinese Room Thought Experiment is one which has occupied both cognitive psychologists and AI specialists for some time, and which brings up some interesting issues
regarding the way in which both human thought processes and computer programming operate, as well as the similarities and differences between the two.
Searle described the experiment as one in which the subject, who
cannot speak, write or understand Chinese but only English, is locked in a room and given a sheaf of papers with Chinese characters on them. The subject is not able
to deduce any meaning from the Chinese characters, since he is unfamiliar with Chinese writing and could not even say for sure that the writing is not Japanese, or indeed
that it is writing at all as opposed to a series of scribbles. This establishes that there is no understanding of the meaning of the symbols themselves.
The subject is then given a further sheaf
of Chinese writing, but this time there is accompanying it a set of instructions in English which explain how to put the two sets of Chinese characters together in a
particular way. The subject can read and understand English, and so these instructions make sense even though the Chinese writing does not, and in order to rearrange the Chinese symbols
according to the English instructions it is only necessary to recognise their shapes, not to understand their meaning.
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