Can Computers Think?
The History and Status of the Debate
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Can Chinese Rooms Think?
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Issue Areas
Do
humans, unlike computers, have intrinsic intentionality?
Is biological
naturalism valid?
Can computers
cross the syntaxsemantics barrier?
Can learning
computers cross the syntaxsemantics barrier?
Can brain simulators
think?
Can robots
think?
Can a combination
robot/brain simulator think?
Can the
Chinese Room, considered as a total system, think?
Do Chinese
Rooms instantiate programs?
Can an internalized
Chinese Room think?
Can translations
occur between the internalized Chinese Room and the internalizing
English speaker?
Can computers
have the right causal powers?
Is strong AI
a valid category?
Other Chinese
Room arguments
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