John R. Searle's Chinese Room Scenario Through the use of his famous Chinese Room Scenario, John R. Searle attempts to demonstrate that it cannot possibly exist artificial intelligence. This means that machines do not possess minds. The debate between those in favor of strong and weak artificial intelligence (AI) is directly related to the philosophy of mind. The claim of weak AI is that you can run a program on a machine, which will behave as if it were a thinking object. Proponents of strong AI say that it is possible to create a program running on a machine that not only behaves as if it were thinking, but actually thinks. Strong followers of artificial intelligence argue that the installation of a computer program is considered to be as real a mind as the mind of any human being. Searle's claim is that any installation of a program is an operation. The lack of meaning, he claims, means that the computer program has no real understanding and isn't really thinking, it's simply calculating and processing symbols. He presents this topic using his famous Chinese room. Searle begins with ta...