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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
Or do they have a sophisticated system for parsing the language and an internal lexicon of Chinese words? Don't they just have a set of instructions for speaking Chinese, just in their memories and speech centers rather than a filing cabinet. If the expirement proves that an AI doesn't actually speak Chinese because it is just using an internal set of instructions to do so, how is a Chinese speaker any different?
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A Chinese speaker encompasses all parts of the Chinese language speaking process, even if in the case of the room the process is done by parts (the operator, the reference books, and the author) that individually don't have full comprehension or expression:
I. The author knows Chinese and the language of the operator but does not know what conversation will take place.
II. The operator can see what characters are coming and going and knows how to look them up and see what characters to respond with, but does not know what they mean, and
III. The books contain the rules for how to generate outputs based on inputs, but have no capacity to act.