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The proper algorithm is constitutive of thought

The Chinese Room doesn't implement a program as real AI seeks to, as there's no homunculus in human thought. In real AI, the algorithms constitute the thought of the agent; they're not algorithms run by an agent that already has its own thoughts.

R.J. Nelson, 1989.
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