It wouldn't matter to Emily would mind which language the
letter was written in. In any case, why do you think they
might be in Chinese? Do be sensible, old chap! ;-)
the following may hinder you
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/Notes_on_AI.html
Proponents of strong AI often cite the fact that computers are capable
of multiple realizations. That means different physical things can
perform like computers. This is the insight exemplified in the "cast
of millions" argument in Leiber. But Searle is suspicious about
multiple realizability. Something about the concept of a "computer"
must be seriously confused if anything can be a computer (even pigeons
pecking, or cats and mice, or humans lined up on football fields).
Searle points out that a human can simulate a computer running a
program to (e.g.) pass the Turing test. Thus someone ignorant of
Chinese could follow the rules of a program for communicating in
Chinese. Even if the program were capable of passing the Turing Test,
the human would not understand Chinese as a result of following the
program. The program would just be about manipulating Chinese symbols.
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