A thought experiment in which a person with no understanding of the Chineselanguage is locked in a room with a set of rules allowing them to produce answers to questions in Chinese. It aims to demonstrate that running a program cannot give a computersystem a "mind", "understanding" or "consciousness", regardless of how intelligent it may appear.
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