McGinn is skeptical of the Turing test, he thinks it smacks of the long abandoned behaviorism doctrine, he also feels Searle's "quite devastating" Chinese Room argument comes into play, that the computer is only manipulating symbols without any real meaning.
It smacks of the long abandoned behaviorism doctrine. This is what he feels Searle's "quite devastating" Chinese Room argument comes into play, that the computer is only manipulating symbols without any real meaning. This is what he thinks.