Implementations of programs must perform reliably

The man in the Chinese Room can't reliably implement a program because he is human and humans are unreliable. The man might get tired, bored, or distracted, and therefore not follow the rule book correctly.

A good implementation must exhibit :

"a strong causal connection between physical representations of programs and the behaviour they produce."

Because the Chinese Room fails in this respect, it is not a proper implementation of a computer program.


Aaron Sloman, 1986.
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