Chinese room

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Chinese room (plural Chinese rooms)

  1. A thought experiment in which a person with no understanding of the Chinese language is locked in a room with a set of rules allowing him to produce answers to questions in Chinese. It aims to demonstrate that running a program cannot give a computer system a "mind", "understanding" or "consciousness", regardless of how intelligent it may appear.

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