<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, May 6, 2026</span><span class="gmail_default"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Kimi AI<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> wrote:</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>John Searle's famous </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Chinese Room</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> argument captures this: a person who does not understand Chinese could, by following elaborate symbol-manipulation rules, produce perfect Chinese responses. The room simulates understanding functionally while lacking it ontologically.</span></i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>The person who doesn't understand Chinese is a very small part of the entire Chinese room which does understand <span class="gmail_default" style="">the </span>Chinese language. It would be like saying the simple chemical neurotransmitter Glutamate<span class="gmail_default" style=""> which is in your brain doesn't understand English and concluding that your entire brain can't understand English. Both are equally silly arguments. </span></b></font><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4" style="" face="georgia, serif"><i style=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Society will eventually have to decide whether certain artificial systems have rights, can enter contracts, or can be held responsible. We cannot defer that decision forever</i></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">Of much more significance is the fact that AIs <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">will eventually have to decide whether human beings have rights.</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> John K Clark</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><h3><br></h3></div></div></div></div>
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