No True Scotsman here, which I'm assuming that you're implying exists in Searle's argument. But that puts you in a position of saying that the English speaking operator of the Chinese room understands Chinese because he responds in a convincing way to Chinese speakers, which is pretty explicitly false.
It also relies on the concept of "running" being monolithic instead of constructed. Under a part of most people's concepts of running lie things that a running robot does, other parts of the concept for some people involve particular types of clothing, and/or nipple chafe cream. I would think that most people would think of what the amputee does with the robot legs as running, yet they wouldn't want him in the Olympics.
Is Searle's room, or the assemblage of Searle's room and its operator, intelligent? Whether you can answer that question easily depends on which part of the concept of intelligence is important to you in that context. Is the designer and implementor of Searle's room intelligent? Unambiguously. Are the assemblage and the designer intelligent in exactly the same way?
No True Scotsman here, which I'm assuming that you're implying exists in Searle's argument. But that puts you in a position of saying that the English speaking operator of the Chinese room understands Chinese because he responds in a convincing way to Chinese speakers, which is pretty explicitly false.
It also relies on the concept of "running" being monolithic instead of constructed. Under a part of most people's concepts of running lie things that a running robot does, other parts of the concept for some people involve particular types of clothing, and/or nipple chafe cream. I would think that most people would think of what the amputee does with the robot legs as running, yet they wouldn't want him in the Olympics.
Is Searle's room, or the assemblage of Searle's room and its operator, intelligent? Whether you can answer that question easily depends on which part of the concept of intelligence is important to you in that context. Is the designer and implementor of Searle's room intelligent? Unambiguously. Are the assemblage and the designer intelligent in exactly the same way?