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The brain-transplant thought experiment

Part of a Chinese speaker's brain is transplanted into Searle's skull. He starts making odd sounds in reply to quesitons in Chinese. In English he insists he speaks no Chinese; Chinese speakers insist he's fluent and claims to speak no English.

David Cole, 1984.
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