Good point—I was thinking of “figuring out the characteristics” fuzzily; but if defined as giving correctly predictive output in response to a given interrogative, the room either does it correctly, or isn’t a fully-functioning Chinese Room.
Good point—I was thinking of “figuring out the characteristics” fuzzily; but if defined as giving correctly predictive output in response to a given interrogative, the room either does it correctly, or isn’t a fully-functioning Chinese Room.