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Searle And His Dilapidated Chinese Room



Searle and His Dilapidated Chinese Room

It is the objective of this essay to demonstrate that Searle’s Chinese Room argument is fallacious on the grounds that it commits the fallacy of composition. Since it is fallacious on this account, the argument fails to adequately discount the Turing Test as an indicator of artificial intelligence. We shall substantiate our claim by executing the following: 1) discussing the Turing Test and its role in Searle’s argument; 2) addressing the Chinese Room argument directly; 3) demonstrating that Searle’s move from the homunculus to the wider system is unjustified and fallacious; and finally 4) expounding on this view by means of a quasi-dialogical form by incorporating Searle’s retorts as we proceed through our claim. It shall become quite apparent that his responses to the Systems Reply do not introduce any new evidence for his case.
In the mid-twentieth century, Alan Turing fueled the classic debate of whether machines could think......


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Approximate Pages: 9 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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