Chinese Room Experiment
In the "Chinese Room Experiment," John R. Searle argues against the claim of computers being actual thinking things. Searle argues that even though computers can pass the Turing test does not mean that they could think. With the help of the "Chinese Room Experiment," he wanted to establish that computer do not think since human beings influence them. I will explain the reasons for how John Searle's arguments are against the claim that computers are an actual thinking thing.
I'll first talk about how Searle was lead to question the claim of computers being things that could actually think and how they were considered to have a strong sense of intelligence based on the assumptions made by Alan Turing. Turing developed a test called the "Turing …show more content…
This would basically mean that both the person and computer can pass a test that involves answering questions in Chinese even when both subjects can not actually understand the language at all. The programming of the computer could be set as an equation which with a given input, the computer can calculate the input and then give out the output. With this support, a computer is not considered a thinking thing since the computer is given certain programming that gives it the ability to pass a test like the Turing …show more content…
The reason why it is not adequately being for the fact that the person, who does not know a bit of Chinese, was only able to write out the answers in Chinese by following the instructions that were given to them. This could also mean that the person put the Chinese characters together correctly without knowing what the characters actually meant. Now applying a computer into the experiment, the computer would have the Chinese characters and instructions programmed into its system so it could then analyze the instructions to formulate the answers with the appropriate Chinese characters. Since both the computer and the person's answers would make it seem that they could understand Chinese but in reality, the computer and person only followed the instructions to formulate the answers. The results of the experiment show that even though subjects could pass a test like the Turing test, it does not mean the test can determine if the subject is a thinking
I'll first talk about how Searle was lead to question the claim of computers being things that could actually think and how they were considered to have a strong sense of intelligence based on the assumptions made by Alan Turing. Turing developed a test called the "Turing …show more content…
This would basically mean that both the person and computer can pass a test that involves answering questions in Chinese even when both subjects can not actually understand the language at all. The programming of the computer could be set as an equation which with a given input, the computer can calculate the input and then give out the output. With this support, a computer is not considered a thinking thing since the computer is given certain programming that gives it the ability to pass a test like the Turing …show more content…
The reason why it is not adequately being for the fact that the person, who does not know a bit of Chinese, was only able to write out the answers in Chinese by following the instructions that were given to them. This could also mean that the person put the Chinese characters together correctly without knowing what the characters actually meant. Now applying a computer into the experiment, the computer would have the Chinese characters and instructions programmed into its system so it could then analyze the instructions to formulate the answers with the appropriate Chinese characters. Since both the computer and the person's answers would make it seem that they could understand Chinese but in reality, the computer and person only followed the instructions to formulate the answers. The results of the experiment show that even though subjects could pass a test like the Turing test, it does not mean the test can determine if the subject is a thinking