"Intelligence in the Chinese Room" The Chinese Room thought experiment proposed by Searle in 1980 has brought up many issues concerning artificial intelligence. The experiment envisages a room in which an English speaker sits, equipped with a book of instructions in English. Through one window, messages in Chinese are passed on to him. He is supposed to follow the instructions and correlate the messages received with other pieces of paper, already in the room, also in …showed first 75 words of 1645 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1645 total…derived) its intelligence and mental states from a point-like source or acquired these properties in an emergent way. The identity of the source and the process through which the mental states were acquired are irrelevant. To say that the entity is not intelligent (the computer, the English speaker) because it got its intelligence from the outside (the programmer), is like saying that someone is not rich because they acquired their riches through some national lottery.