"Chinese room" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Chinese rooms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Chinese room (plural Chinese rooms)
  1. The setting of a thought experiment in which a person with no understanding of the Chinese language is locked in a room with a set of rules allowing them to produce answers to questions in Chinese. It aims to demonstrate that running a program cannot give a computer system a "mind", "understanding" or "consciousness", regardless of how intelligent it may appear. Wikipedia link: Chinese room
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