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[–] 1 point 3 years ago

All he has shown that the human+room-system is something different than just the human by itself.

It's more than that. He says that all Turing machines are fundamentally the same as the Chinese room, and therefore no Turing machine will ever be capable of "human understanding".

Alternately, if anyone ever builds a machine that can achieve "human understanding", it will not be a Turing machine.

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