Archive: March 2026
1 post published in March 2026
The Chinese Room has understanding
It just can't prove it
I recently came across an article called Building the Chinese Room by SE Gyges. And it sucked me in. For real. It digs into John Searle’s famous thought experiment of the Chinese Room and argues that it’s fundamentally flawed. I went back and read Searle’s original 1980 paper to see for myself, and what happened next was unexpected: the more I read, the more I found myself disagreeing with everyone — Searle, Gyges, and at several points, myself. (Well actually, that is very me.)