Philosophy Bites
Philosophy Bites
Edmonds and Warburton
Daniel Dennett on the Chinese Room
16 minutes Posted Jun 23, 2013 at 2:51 pm.
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Can computers think? John Searle famously used the Chinese Room thought experiment to suggest that they can't. Daniel Dennett is suspicious about the way the thought experiment is set up. In this conversation with Nigel Warburton for the Philosophy Bites podcast he explains why.