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    The Robot Reply to the Chinese Room argument is no strong... — Carmelics
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    The Robot Reply to the Chinese Room argument is no stronger than the Systems Reply

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    • 1.Sensors can only provide additional syntactic input to the computer, not semantic content
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    • 2.Adding sensory input to the Chinese Room scenario (e.g., digitized video camera output as binary digits on a ticker tape) does not allow the man in the room to associate meanings with the Chinese characters
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    • 3.Additional syntactic inputs merely increase the workload without grounding symbols in meaning
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    The Chinese Room argument is valid and works against the Systems Reply83%The Virtual Mind Reply to the Chinese Room argument is implausible82%The argument depends on the Humean Theory of Motivation (HTM)78%Evans' argument and Church's argument collapse into one another under ...77%

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    However Searle does not think that the Robot Reply to the Chinese Room argument is any stronger than the Systems Reply. All the sensors can do is provide additional input to the computer – and it will be just syntactic input. We can see this by making a parallel change to the Chinese Room scenario. Suppose the man in the Chinese Room receives, in addition to the Chinese characters slipped under the door, a stream of binary digits that appear, say, on a ticker tape in a corner of the room. The in
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