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    It is not the case that Searle's Chinese Room argument does not impugn Empirical Strong AI — the thesis that it is possible to program a computer that convincingly satisfies ordinary criteria of understanding.

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    • 1.Searle's argument refutes only 'logical strong AI' — the thesis that a program passing the Turing Test will necessarily understand.
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    • 2.Empirical Strong AI makes a weaker, possibility claim rather than a necessity claim.
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    • 1.Searle's argument targets the sufficiency of syntax for semantics, not the empirical possibility of systems exhibiting functional understanding.
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    • 2.Dennett's heterophenomenological framework shows that third-person behavioral criteria can legitimately constitute understanding without requiring intrinsic intentionality.
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    • 3.A system can satisfy all ordinary epistemic criteria for understanding even if Searle's metaphysical claim about intrinsic intentionality remains unresolved.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations establish that understanding is constituted by correct participation in practices, not by inner mental states inaccessible to behavioral verification.
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    • 2.If understanding is criterially linked to behavioral competence rather than hidden semantic facts, Empirical Strong AI's possibility claim survives Searle's internalist objection intact.
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