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      Wow, solid wiki article! It’s very hard to say anything on the subject that hasn’t been said.

      I didn’t see the simple phrasing:

      “What if the human brain is a Chinese Room?”

      but that seems to fall under eliminative materialism replies.

      Part of the Chinese Room program (both in our heads and in an AI) could be dedicated to creating the experience of consciousness.

      Searle has no substantial logical reply to this criticism. He openly takes it on faith that humans have consciousness, which is funny because an AI could say the same thing.

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        The whole point of the Chinese room is that it doesn’t need anything “dedicated to creating the experience of consciousness”. It can pass the Turing test perfectly well without such a component. Therefore passing the Turing test - or any similar test based solely on algorithmic output - is not the same as possessing consciousness.