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    Challenges→Searle's Chinese Room response to the Systems Reply is flawed due to a level-of-description fallacy.

    Searle imagines himself consciously implementing the formal structures and operations that the theory says are sufficient to implement a mind.

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    John Haugeland writes (2002) that Searle’s response to the Systems Reply is flawed: “…what he now asks is what it would be like if he, in his own mind, were consciously to implement the underlying formal structures and operations that the theory says are sufficient to implement another mind”. According to Haugeland, his failure to understand Chinese is irrelevant: he is just the implementer. The larger system implemented would understand – there is a level-of-description fallacy.

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