--- abstract: 'Searle’s discussions over the years 1980-2004 of the implications of his “Chinese Room” Gedanken experiment are frustrating because they proceed from a correct assertion: (1) “Instantiating a computer program is never by itself a sufficient condition of intentionality;” and an incorrect assertion: (2) “The explanation of how the brain produces intentionality cannot be that it does it by instantiating a computer program.” In this article, I describe how to construct a Gedanken zombie Chinese Room program that will pass the Turing test and at the same time unambiguously demonstrates the correctness of (1). I then describe how to construct a Gedanken Chinese brain program that will pass the Turing test, has a mind, and understands Chinese, thus demonstrating that (2) is incorrect. Searle’s instantiation of this program can and does produce intentionality. Searle’s longstanding ignorance of Chinese is simply irrelevant and always has been. I propose a truce and a plan for further exploration.' altloc: - http://www.teleonetics.com/publications/TR-05-002.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - LouisCutrona creators_name: - family: 'Cutrona, Jr.' given: Louis J. honourific: Dr. lineage: '' date: 2005-05 date_type: published datestamp: 2005-12-05 department: Theoretical Cognitive Science Research dir: disk0/00/00/46/36 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 4636 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/4636/1/TR%2D05%2D002.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: Teleonetics Ltd. isbn: ~ ispublished: unpub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Chinese Room, computation, consciousness, intentionality, mind, programming, solipsism, Turing test, zombie' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:14 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: | Abolfazlian, A. (1995) What's Connectionism got to do with IT? Proceedings of the Second Swedish Conference on Connectionism (SCC95). Baum, Eric B. (2004) What is Thought? The MIT Press. Block, Ned. (1995) The Mind as the Software of the Brain. In: An Invitation to Cognitive Science, eds. D. Osherson, L. Gleitman, S. Kosslyn, E. Smith and S. Sternberg, MIT Press. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/msb.html Cutrona, Louis J., Jr. (2005) Intentionality: When Syntax Is Semantics. (in prep.) Dennett, Daniel C. (1991) Consciousness Explained. Little, Brown. Fields, R. and Stevens-Graham, B. (2002) New Insights into Neuron-Glia Communication. Science 298: 556-562. Fodor, Jerry A. (1975) The Language of Thought. Harvard University Press. Gettier, Edmund L., III (1963) Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? Analysis 23: 121 123. Hawkins, Jeff with Blakeslee, Sandra. (2004) On Intelligence. Henry Holt and Company. Searle, John R. (1980) Minds, Brains, and Programs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3: 417-457. Searle, John R. (1992) The Rediscovery of the Mind. The MIT Press. Searle, John R. (2004) Mind: A Brief Introduction. Oxford University Press. Temburni, M. and Jacob, M. (2001) New functions for glia in the brain. PNAS 98: 3631-3632. Turing, Alan M. (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind 59: 433-460. Volterra, A., Magistretti, P., and Haydon, P. (2002), eds. The Tripartite Synapse: Glia in Synaptic Transmission. Oxford University Press. relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: TR-05-002 rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 17:01:21 subjects: - phil-mind - comp-sci-art-intel - cog-psy succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: "Zombies in Searle's Chinese Room: Putting the Turing Test to Bed" type: techreport userid: 5763 volume: ~