1. Can the Turing Test Help Us to Understand Human Mental Funct
... in one room. He is given questions written in Chinese by a native speaker. The person inside the room has to write an answer in Chinese with the help of an instruction book written in English without understanding anything about the subject of the ... this circumstance, the computer he was simulating could not understand any either. Computers only simulate thought, so they just seem to understand. However, computer simulation is useful for studying the mind and human mental functioning. Harnad (1989) argued that Searle ... a mechanism (the actual testing of the theory) and the implanta...
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