La Pieza China: un experimento mental con sesgo cartesiano?

This article examines a classical thought experiment by John Searle in philosophy of mind, which Dennett and Hofstadter have accused as a non reliable intuition pump. As I argue here, although this thought experiment involves a Cartesian bias, this does not mean it is unreliable. Indeed, the Chinese Room most important feature is that it depends upon a conscious cognitive agent who performs the experiment and, in particular, someone who cannot be jettisoned in order to know whether or not linguistic under-standing takes place after symbol processing. Certainly, the first person viewpoint of the agent who carries out the experiment is, like in other instances, what allows one to test a hypothesis about the nature of the mind.