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    The room operator's states of consciousness are irrelevant to the properties of the Chinese Room system as a whole.

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    • 1.The room operator functions merely as a causal facilitator — a 'demon' — within the Chinese Room system.
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    • 2.A causal facilitator's personal mental states do not determine the properties of the system the facilitator enables.
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    Perlis (1992), Chalmers (1996) and Block (2002) have apparently endorsed versions of a Virtual Mind reply as well, as has Richard Hanley in The Metaphysics of Star Trek (1997). Penrose (2002) is a critic of this strategy, and Stevan Harnad scornfully dismisses such heroic resorts to metaphysics. Harnad defended Searle’s position in a “Virtual Symposium on Virtual Minds” (1992) against Patrick Hayes and Don Perlis. Perlis pressed a virtual minds argument derived, he says, from Maudlin. Chalmers (
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