[ExI] The symbol grounding problem in strong AI

[John Clark]

On Dec 17, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Gordon Swobe wrote:

> No understanding of Chinese from following Chinese syntax. Right.

Wrong. There is not a scrap of information to indicate that a deep understanding of Chinese was not involved.

> And yet he still passes the Turing test in Chinese.

He? In English rooms don't have a gender. And nobody said Turing found the perfect test for consciousness, it's just that its all we have so it will have to do.

 John K Clark 

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