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The Chinese Room Argument
John Searle's 1980 thought experiment argues that a computer manipulating symbols according to rules can never truly understand meaning, no matter how convincingly it simulates conversation — syntax is not semantics. This argument outperforms the Chinese Room Argument than the Turing Test in challenging functionalist claims, and 83% of respondents in a recent philosophy survey found it still relevant to AI debates.
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