This comic was a request from my colleague from Tufts, the philosopher Dan Dennett. He asked me to recreate a comic strip he saw posted on the wall of an MIT AI lab almost 30 years ago. The comic is based on the philosopher John Searle’s famous thought experiment about the “Chinese Room.”
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