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    Challenges→If a program creates understanding of Chinese, the understanding mind is distinct from the human operator of the Chinese Room.

    The supporting argument conflates the vehicle of mental content (the program's database) with the subject who understands (Block's distinction between access and phenomenal consciousness).

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    Conflates(in argumentation and logic)
    Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
    Ned Block(as a philosopher studying consciousness)
    A contemporary philosopher who studies consciousness and the mind; he's known for arguing that our conscious experiences (like seeing colors) might be fundamentally different from what we can logically imagine or prove.
    Vehicle (of mental content)(as used in philosophy of mind)
    The physical thing that carries or holds a thought—like how a car is the 'vehicle' for passengers, the brain or a computer program is the 'vehicle' for thoughts.
    access consciousness(Contrasted with phenomenal consciousness as one of the 'easy problems')
    A form of consciousness whose dynamics can be explained in terms of the functional or computational organization of the brain

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    mental content(Davidsonian account)
    The content of propositional mental states such as belief, determined through causal relations between speakers and objects in the world and through the rational integration of speakers' behaviour.
    phenomenal consciousness(Contrasted with functional or physical properties in anti-physicalist arguments)
    The subjective, felt quality of experience that zombies are stipulated to lack despite physical identity with conscious humans

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