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Daniel Dennett on the Chinese Room

2013/6/23
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Can computers think? John Searle famously used the Chinese Room thought experiment to suggest that they can't. Daniel Dennett) is suspicious about the way the thought experiment is set up. In this conversation with Nigel Warburton for the Philosophy Bites podcast he explains why.