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    It is not the case that The Chinese Room argument is valid and works against the Systems Reply

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    • 1.Searle's internalization move commits a mereological fallacy by attributing to the part what belongs only to the whole system.
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    • 2.Cognitive properties like understanding are legitimately emergent at the system level and need not be present in any single component.
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    • 3.The Systems Reply correctly identifies that the room-plus-rules constitutes a distinct cognitive entity irreducible to Searle-inside-the-room.
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    • 1.Searle's intuition that the man 'doesn't understand Chinese' smuggles in a question-begging assumption about where understanding must be located.
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    • 2.Dennett's heterophenomenological framework shows that understanding is best attributed functionally to systems exhibiting the right input-output dispositions, not to inner qualia.
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    • 1.The Chinese Room argument demonstrates that a program simulating understanding does not itself understand
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    • 2.The Systems Reply fails to account for the distinction between simulation and genuine understanding
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