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Is that what we mean by thinking?

Imagine you interact with a program that can answer any question you have, explains itself well, seems perfectly intelligent. But then you get to read the source code and it's just petabytes of if/else statements with every question you asked and every other one you can imagine. A practically infinite list. But nothing more complex than that.

Is that program "thinking"?




The Chinese room in other words




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