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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Artificial Intelligence »Artificial Intelligence
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Can computers think? [1] »Can computers think? [1]
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Yes: physical symbol systems can think [3] »Yes: physical symbol systems can think [3]
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The Chinese Room Argument [4] »The Chinese Room Argument [4]
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Man in Chinese Room doesn't instantiate a progam »Man in Chinese Room doesn't instantiate a progam
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Implementations of programs must perform reliably
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Replace the one human with many »Replace the one human with many
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