THE ROLE THAT CRA PLAYS o The Chinese room thought experiment itself is the support for the third premise The claim that syntactic manipulation is not sufficient for meaning or thought is a significant issue, with wider implications than Al, or attributions of understanding. Prominent theories of mind hold that human cognition generally is computational In one form, it is held that thought involves operations on symbols in virtue of their physical properties On an alternative connectionist account, the computations are on "subsymbolic states. If Searle is right, not only Strong al but also these main approaches to understanding human cognition are misguidedTHE ROLE THAT CRA PLAYS  The Chinese Room thought experiment itself is the support for the third premise. The claim that syntactic manipulation is not sufficient for meaning or thought is a significant issue, with wider implications than AI, or attributions of understanding. Prominent theories of mind hold that human cognition generally is computational. In one form, it is held that thought involves operations on symbols in virtue of their physical properties. On an alternative connectionist account, the computations are on “subsymbolic” states. If Searle is right, not only Strong AI but also these main approaches to understanding human cognition are misguided