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Quantum Mechanics, the Chinese Room Experiment and the Limits of Understanding - Scientific American

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All of us, even physicists, often process information without really knowing what we’re doing

Opinion March 9, 2021 6 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Quantum Mechanics, the Chinese Room Experiment and the Limits of Understanding All of us, even physicists, often process information without really knowing what we're doing By John Horgan Artem Peretiatko Getty Images Like great art, great thought experiments have implications unintended by their creators. Take philosopher John Searle's Chinese room experiment . Searle concocted it to convince us that computers don't really "think" as we do; they manipulate symbols mindlessly, without understanding what they are doing. Searle meant to

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