Concept information
PREFERRED TERM
Chinese room argument
DEFINITION(S)
- A thought experiment that consists of imagining a person, locked in a room and having to communicate in Chinese with a native speaker on the outside, without knowing the language, by following only syntactic rules, to question whether a computer program can truly understand.
BROADER CONCEPT(S)
BELONGS TO GROUP
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION(S)
- • Searle, J. R. (1980). Minds, brains, and programs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3(3), 417–424. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00005756
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/23L-JK85JWT9-F
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