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Book excerpt / evidentiary document
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Summary
This document appears to be a page (page 66) from a book titled 'Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?' included in a House Oversight investigation (Bates stamp HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015756). The text discusses the 'Chinese Room' philosophical thought experiment by John Searle, arguing that computers process syntax but lack semantic understanding, contrasting this with the 'System Argument' favored by AI proponents. While likely part of discovery regarding Jeffrey Epstein's scientific funding or interests, the text itself is purely philosophical and contains no specific transaction or flight data.
People (3)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| John Searle | Philosopher |
Mentioned as the creator of the 'Chinese Room' thought experiment regarding AI and understanding.
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| The man | Hypothetical subject |
Subject in the thought experiment who follows rules to write Chinese characters without understanding them.
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| The graduate student | Hypothetical subject |
Subject outside the room communicating with 'the man' in Chinese.
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The Chinese Room thought experiment
Philosophical concept
John Searle (creator)
Hypothetical man
Hypothetical student
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A hypothetical location for a philosophical thought experiment.
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Relationships (1)
John Searle, who devised the thought experiment uses it to show computers can never understand...
Key Quotes (3)
"Computers, Searle argues, process syntax – the rules of language; humans understand semantics – the contextual meaning of language."Source
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"The book is software and the man blindly following instructions is the hardware."Source
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"Systems understand; their individual components do not."Source
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