Chinese culture 1. Chinese Tea Culture China is the homeland of tea. It is believed that China has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago‚ and human cultivation of teaplants dates back two thousand years. Tea from China‚ along with her silk and porcelain‚ began to be known the world over more than a thousand years ago and has since always been an important Chinese export. At present more than forty countries in the world grow tea with Asian countries producing 90% of the world’s
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However‚ if instead of a room‚ one was in a robot whose different actions triggered different words‚ then eventually the symbols would begin to mean something. Searle makes the claim that this is irrelevant to the person in the room: no matter what triggers the word being given‚ all one receives is the symbol. There is no image to accompany it‚ as computers process symbols and
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Searle’s argument in “Escaping from the Chinese Room” are strong and that the internal symbols and procedures of computer program “do embody minimal understanding.” (Boden‚ 387) I will begin this essay by investigating Searle’s Chinese room thought—experiement. This thought—experiement is meant to simulate the processes of a digital computer. I will detail how‚ according to Searle’s own multiple definitions of thinking‚ the person inside the Chinese language room is in fact thinking‚ citing arguments
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computation is “defined syntactically in terms of symbol manipulation.” John Searle uses the Chinese Room as an example of a computerized mind. We have to assume that the man in the room‚ outside from Chinese people‚ does not know any Chinese. But he has a set of rules that can help him communicate with the Chinese outside. When he stirs up a conversation‚ does it really mean that he can understand and write Chinese? Or is it just the mind doing one of the amazing things it can do and translating everything
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I will be explaining the Computational Theory of Mind and giving an illustration of the definition. Furthermore‚ explaining the objection to Computationalism‚ known as Searle’s Chinese Room argument. I will be stating and evaluating the premises of the Chinese Room argument‚ and explaining the Robot Reply. I will be concluding by giving a reply to Searle’s argument and the Robot Reply. The basic concept of Computationalism suggests that the mind functions computationally; cognition and consciousness
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(Lansford 1). Every culture has its own myth that explains about the nature of that particular culture. The Chinese culture has been around for many centuries‚ its myths have accumulated into varies stories of gods and their culture. China is the world’s oldest continuous civilization (Cotterel 9). Evidence show the earliest Chinese civilization to be found around 1650 B.C. The beginnings of Chinese mythology‚ started around the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Influenced by alchemist ideas‚ Taoist and Buddhist
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A man was at a computer on a chat room with a wall in front of him‚ on the other side of the wall was either a human or a computer‚ the man would ask the same questions to each condition and would have to decide which one was a computer. However‚ an argument against this is the Chinese Room shown by Searle. This is when there is a man in a room with a Chinese symbol translator book and someone outside of the room who is sending in notes‚ the man in the room replies back but doesn’t understand
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abilities (Stanford). In 1980 John Searle published “The Chinese Room Argument” to prove that artificial intelligence appears to understand language but it actually does not understand. The argument is set in a scenario in which a computer follows a program written in the computing language. A human types Chinese symbols but does not actually understand Chinese and because the computer does what the human does it does not show understanding of Chinese either. The Turing test was created in 1950 by Alan
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animal’s ‘intentionality’ being based on the causal features and comparing them to computer programs not being sufficient enough to have ‘intentionality’. Searle illustrates this with his “Chinese room” experiment. The room contains a person who speaks English (say code) if the person knows no Chinese and is given Chinese letters and asked for a response he would not be able to respond. If he is given instructions on how to describe the letters in English he can spit out responses based on the
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References: Dennett‚ D. (1991). Consciousness imagined. Consciousness Explained‚ ‚ 431-440. Hauser‚ L. Chinese room argument. Retrieved from: http://www.iep.utm.edu/chineser/
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