Overt behavior doesn't demonstrate understanding

The Chinese Room argument shows that a system can engage in Chinese-speaking behavior yet fail to understand Chinese. The Chinese Room is a system that could past the Turing Test without thinking in Chinese.

John Searle, 1980b.
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