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The Chinese Water-pipe brain simulator

Chinese Room man given a new rulebook indicating which valves to switch on/off in vast system of waterpipes in response to Chinese inputs. The pipes simulate the neural properties of a Chinese speaker's brain but the man doesn't understand Chinese.

John Searle 1980a, 1980b, 1990b.



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