Locked in a Chinese Room
John Searle is locked in solitary confinement
He is given lots of …
- blank paper, pens, and time
- lots of Chinese symbols on bits of paper
- an in tray and out tray
- for receiving and sending Chinese messages
- rule books written in English (which he does understand)
- telling how to take paper from in-tray, process it, and put new bit of paper with symbols on it in out-tray