Hypercomputation in the Chinese Room

  • Authors:

  • B. Jack Copeland

  • Affiliations:

  • -

  • Venue:
  • UMC '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Unconventional Models of Computation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

I rehearse a number of objections to John Searle's famous Chinese room argument. One is the 'hypercomputational objection' (Copeland 2002a). Hypercomputation is the computation of functions that cannot be computed in the sense of Turing (1936); the term originates in Copeland and Proudfoot (1999). I defend my hypercomputational objection to the Chinese room argument from a response recently developed by Bringsjord, Bello and Ferrucci (2001).