How is this related to the 2nd point in OP's comment?
The whole Chinese room argument is based merely on a misinterpretation of computentionalist/physicalist argument.
Of course the computer or person who executes the program does not understand Chinese, they are just performing arithmetic operations, the entity understanding Chinese is the program itself, not the medium on which the program runs.
The whole Chinese room argument is based merely on a misinterpretation of computentionalist/physicalist argument.
Of course the computer or person who executes the program does not understand Chinese, they are just performing arithmetic operations, the entity understanding Chinese is the program itself, not the medium on which the program runs.