We use the term 'Strong Artificial Life' to refer to the thesis that a sufficiently sophisticated computer simulation of a life-form is a life-form in its own right. Can John Searle's Chinese room Argument-originally intended by Searle to show that the thesis he dubs 'Strong AI' is false-be deployed against Strong A-Life? We have often encountered the suggestion that it can be (even in print; see Hamad 1993), However, so far as we know, there has been no detailed effort to state and assess a form of the argument which deals specifically with A-Life. We do our best to transfer the argument from the domain of AI to that of A-Life. We do so in order to show once and for all that the Chinese room argument proves nothing about A-Life.
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机译：我们使用“强大的人工生命”一词来参考本文，即生命形式的足够复杂的计算机模拟是自身的寿命形式。 John Searle的中国房间论述 - 最初是由Searle的意图，表明他在强烈的A-Life举行了虚假的武装的论点？我们经常遇到这一建议，即它可以是（即使是印刷;看见Hamad 1993），但是，据我们所知，没有详细努力陈述和评估具体与生活的论据的形式。我们尽最大努力将参数从AI领域转移到生活中的论点。我们这样做是为了展示一次，为所有中国人的论证都证明了一个生活。
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