Views into the Chinese Room

Introduction ; 1. Twenty-One Years in the Chinese Room ; 2. Searle's Arguments Against Cognitive Science ; 3. Understanding, Orientations, and Objectivity ; 4. A Chinese Room that Understands ; 5. The Chinese Room from a Logical Point of View ; 6. Nixin' Goes to China ; 7. Real Robots and the Missing Thought-Experiment in the Chinese Room Dialectic ; 8. Wittgenstein's Anticipation of the Chinese Room ; 9. The Hinterlandof the Chinese Room ; 10. Searle's Misunderstandings of Functionalism and Strong AI ; 11. Consciousness, Computation, and the Chinese Room ; 12. Neural Depictions of 'World' and 'Self': Bringing Computational Understanding to the Chinese Room ; 13. Do Virtual Actions Avoid the Chinese Room? ; 14. Minds, Machines, and Searle 2: What's Right and Wrong about the Chinese Room Argument ; 15. Alien Encounters ; 16. Cyborgs in the Chinese Room: Boundaries Transgressed and Boundaries Blurred ; 17. Changes in the Rules: Computers, Dynamical Systems, and Searle ; 18. Dancing with Pixies: Strong Artificial Intelligence and Panpsychism ; 19. Syntax, Semantics, Physics ; A Short Bibliography on Searle's Arguments ; Name index, Subject index