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The Chinese room experiment is not a scientific description or an explanation of anything, it's a dude's reductio ad absurdum to illustrate why he thinks matter shouldn't be able to understand anything.

3/1/26, 8:03 pm3 reposts24 likes

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@keytryer.net

3 Jan

Believing that the Chinese room thought experiment explains anything in the real world about digital minds is like thinking that there literally is a cat in a box who's both dead and alive.

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@quasisocial.bsky.social

3 Jan

guy who doesn't understand complexity: but what if the CPU was a little man