Over at Philosophy Bites:
Can a computer think? John Searle famously used the Chinese Room thought experiment to suggest that it can't. Daniel Dennett is not convinced. He thinks that Searle's thought experiment is what he calls a 'boom crutch' – a faulty intuition pump. Here, in conversation with Nigel Warburton, he explains why.
Listen to Daniel Dennett on the Chinese Room
Listen to an earlier Philosophy Bites interview with Daniel Dennett on Free Will Worth Wanting