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Summary of the Chinese Room argument:

1. Your brain consists of two parts: The neurons, and the electro-chemical signals that flow between them (or any other partitioning for which the next is true)

2. Neither the neurons nor the electro-chemical signals are conscious.

3. Therefore your brain is not conscious.



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