Chinese Room

The Chinese Room argument is a thought experiment and associated arguments designed by John Searle (1980 [1]) as a counterargument to claims made by supporters of what Searle called strong artificial intelligence (see also functionalism).The argument is that a computer cannot have understanding, because human beings, when running computer programs by hand, do not acquire understanding. His arguments are taken very seriously in the field of philosophy, but are regarded as invalid by many scientists, including those outside the field of AI.
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An argument forwarded by John Searle intended to show that the mind is not a computer and how the Turing Test is inadequate.
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