@cstross
True. Searle assumed some godlike being carefully filled in the google or so entries in the lookup tables that controlled the way the little man (or was it a p-zombie? I get confused) inside the room created the translations. I am seriously annoyed by thought experiments that start with incoherent postulates.

@cstross @Sweetshark
The Chinese Room was debunked 40 years ago, and I still get people quoting it at me. Not to speak of the people who don’t understand that Neural Nets are not anything like biological neurons. I get tired of explaining CogSci 100 (prerequisite for 101).