The Chinese Room argument is a thought experiment and associated arguments designed by John Searle (Searle 1980) to show that a symbol processing machine like a computer can never be properly described as having a “mind” or “understanding”, regardless of how intelligently it may behave.
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Yi-Yuan Tang of China’s Dalian University of Technology, left, and Michael Posner of the University of Oregon are studying the mechanisms behind meditation and well being.
A team of researchers from China and the University of Oregon have developed an approach for neuroscientists to study how meditation might provide improvements in a person’s attention and response […]