caa a22 4500 445838132 CHVBK 20180317145336.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11023-010-9220-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11023-010-9220-0 Ford Jason Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Duluth, 315 A. B. Anderson Hall, 1121 University Drive, 55812-3027, Duluth, MN, USA aut Helen Keller Was Never in a Chinese Room [Elektronische Daten] [Jason Ford] William Rapaport, in "How Helen Keller used syntactic semantics to escape from a Chinese Room,” (Rapaport 2006), argues that Helen Keller was in a sort of Chinese Room, and that her subsequent development of natural language fluency illustrates the flaws in Searle's famous Chinese Room Argument and provides a method for developing computers that have genuine semantics (and intentionality). I contend that his argument fails. In setting the problem, Rapaport uses his own preferred definitions of semantics and syntax, but he does not translate Searle's Chinese Room argument into that idiom before attacking it. Once the Chinese Room is translated into Rapaport's idiom (in a manner that preserves the distinction between meaningful representations and uninterpreted symbols), I demonstrate how Rapaport's argument fails to defeat the CRA. This failure brings a crucial element of the Chinese Room Argument to the fore: the person in the Chinese Room is prevented from connecting the Chinese symbols to his/her own meaningful experiences and memories. This issue must be addressed before any victory over the CRA is announced. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Chinese room argument nationallicence Searle nationallicence Helen Keller nationallicence Computationalism nationallicence Meaning nationallicence Experience nationallicence Rapaport nationallicence Minds and Machines Springer Netherlands 21/1(2011-02-01), 57-72 0924-6495 21:1<57 2011 21 11023 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-010-9220-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-010-9220-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ford Jason Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Duluth, 315 A. B. Anderson Hall, 1121 University Drive, 55812-3027, Duluth, MN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Minds and Machines Springer Netherlands 21/1(2011-02-01), 57-72 0924-6495 21:1<57 2011 21 11023 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer