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The answers in Chinese that Searle produces are very good.<br />

In fact, so good, no one can tell that he is not a native<br />

Chinese speaker!<br />

Searle’s Chinese Room passes the Turing Test. In other<br />

words, it functions like an intelligent person.<br />

Searle has only conducted symbol manipulation, with no<br />

understanding, yet he passes the Turing Test in Chinese.<br />

Therefore, passing the Turing Test does not ensure<br />

understanding.<br />

In other words, although Searle’s Chinese Room functions<br />

like a mind, he knows (and we in an analogous foreignlanguage<br />

room experiment would know) it is not a mind,<br />

and therefore functionalism is wrong.

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