Japanese Room thought experiment
Suppose we have a computer system that behaves as if it understands Japanese and is large enough to put a man inside. If we ask the man to run one part of the system, we wouldn't expect him to be aware of the mental states of the system as a whole,
Hence the man's obserations say nothing about the intentionality of the Japanese Room as a whole.

Richard Double 1983.
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Japanese Room thought experiment
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