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Chinese rooms

Chinese rooms is the plural of Chinese room.

Meaning of Chinese room

Noun

Chinese room (plural Chinese rooms)

  1. The setting of a thought experiment in which a person with no understanding of the Chinese language is locked in a room with a set of rules allowing them to produce answers to questions in Chinese. It aims to demonstrate that running a program cannot give a computer system a "mind", "understanding" or "consciousness", regardless of how intelligent it may appear.

Questions about Chinese rooms

What is Chinese rooms the plural of?
Chinese rooms is the plural of Chinese room.

Words near Chinese rooms in the dictionary

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  6. Chinese rooms
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  8. Chinese rose
  9. Chinese roses
  10. Chinese rosewood
  11. Chinese rosewoods

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