John Searle's 1980 'Chinese room' thought experiment challenges the possibility of AI minds by describing a person who manipulates symbols according to instructions to generate Chinese utterances without actually understanding the language, concluding that symbol manipulation is insufficient for intelligence or consciousness.

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  Consciousness and AI - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

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• Consciousness and AI - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu MIT via serper

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• artificial intelligence concept
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