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    It is not the case that 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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