Chinese Room - Philosophy

Philosophy

Although the Chinese Room argument was originally presented in reaction to the statements of AI researchers, philosophers have come to view it as an important part of the philosophy of mind. It is a challenge to functionalism and the computational theory of mind, and is related to such questions as the mind-body problem, the problem of other minds,the symbol-grounding problem, and the hard problem of consciousness.

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