The Chinese Room Argument

By L. Hauser. 2001

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GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models (2024, unknown): “This distinction aligns with ideas akin to the Chinese Room Argument (Cole, 2024), underscoring the difference between true comprehension and pattern-matching.”
Implicit learning and consciousness: A graded, dynamic perspective (2002, background): “…that the phenomenal properties of experience just seem not to be the sort of stuff that one might expect to obtain by mere shuffling of formal representations or symbols, no matter how convoluted, recurrent, or complex the relation among these symbols may turn out to be (Searle, 1980; 1992; 1999).”