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Re:The Chinese Room Argument by ForHackernews on Sunday February 03, 2019 @05:54PM (#19072764)
The index cards are irrelevant. Pretend he wrote "a really fancy computer" if you like that better.
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Re:The Chinese Room Argument by yongjik on Sunday February 03, 2019 @06:02PM (#19072800)
But the index cards are relevant! If we rewrite it as thus:

> There is a really fancy computer, and a person who has the switch. When the person turns on the switch, you can converse with the computer in Chinese. Does this fancy computer understand Chinese?

Then, well, at least I would say "Well, wasn't that the exact question you were trying to answer in the first place? What changed?"

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