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I had not heard of this before, but very interesting! For those wanting more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chine

• anigbrowl 17y ago
  If you found it interesting then you really need to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach ...and indeed, pretty much everything else he has written. It seems to me that the long slow debate between these two philophers (add in Daniel Dennett on Hofstadter's side) turns on the fundamental philosophical question of where consciousness begins and ends, which has considerable ramifications beyond the field of artificial intelligence. I reject Searle's argument for reasons too long to go into here, but he is a very interesting philosopher in his own right. While I'm on this topic, I may as well also mention Stanislaw Lem's essay Non Serviam excerpted here (http://themindi.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-19-non-serviam.html http://themindi.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-19-non-serviam....) from A Perfect Vacuum: Perfect reviews of nonexistent books. Much, perhaps most, of Lem's output is concerned with the nature of consciousness and autonomy explored through the medium of fiction, just as Philip K dick tends to explore the same questions from a psychological standpoint.