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What's Wrong and Right About Searle's Chinese Room Argument?

Stevan Harnad

Year
2001
Citations
12

Abstract

Searle's Chinese Room Argument showed a fatal flaw in computationalism\n (the idea that mental states are just computational states) and helped usher in\n the era of situated robotics and symbol grounding (although Searle himself\n thought neuroscience was the only correct way to understand the mind).

Keywords

Argument (complex analysis)SituatedEpistemologyPhilosophyPhilosophy of mindSymbol (formal)Cognitive sciencePsychologyArtificial intelligenceComputer science

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