The Chinese Room argument is circular
To show that syntactic symbol manipulations can never give the man in the room an understanding of Chinese, Searle assumes the man understands no Chinese, which itself assumes that performing syntactic symbol manipulations doesn't yield semantics.


Dale Jacquette, 1990.
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