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The genesis of the Chinese room originated in the philosophical discussions between functionalist ideas regarding the consciousness of the mind and its relation to the cognition (functionalists identify mental states by mental action rather than mental composition)
Based in the same experimental setup as the Turing Test, it tests human evaluation of computerized responses. However, the Turing Test was used to prove that machines can be indistinguishable from the human mind while Searle argues the opposite, making it a counter.
1.) Computerized programs are solely based on input and based on syntax
2.) Humans have the ability to interpret deeper meaning from language based in semantics
3.) Syntax does not contain and is not adequate for semantic understanding
4.) Programs are therefore not adequate to consitute the mind
• Chinese Room's lack of consciousness
• Consciousness and unconsciousness defined by intentionality
• Intentionality: property of being about something and having content
○ Must be intrinsically mental
○ Must have an aspectual shape
• The unconscious is comprised of things that could have been potentially conscious
• It can then be made intentionally if it is potentially thinkable or conceivable
• Inferential gulf of the aspectual shape = subjectivity
• Ontology refers to the mode of existence (for Searle's purposes)
• Contradiction? Ontology of unconscious intentionality is describable in third-person neurophysiological terms, but mental states are irreducibly subjective