Random philosophical thought experiment: would running a real-world Searle’s Chinese Room experiment make one guilty of crimes…
Random philosophical thought experiment: would running a real-world Searle’s Chinese Room experiment make one guilty of crimes against humanity, viz. torture? After all, there’s a human in solitary confinement inside it, who is forbidden from communicating their own thoughts …
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