Mistakes epistemological argument for a metaphysical one

Japanese Room thought experiment is only supposed to make the epistemological point that a man in a room can't tell us wether the room as a whole is thinking. It's not supposed to make a metaphsical point about what can or can't have intentionality.

Richard Double, 1984.
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