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We lack intuitions about the internalizing man

Once the man in the Room internalizes the room we no longer have adequately clear intuitions about what's going on inside his head—due to the complexity of the process of internalizing the room–to determine whether or not he understands Chinese.

John Fisher, 1988.

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