Survey Results

Chinese room: doesn't understand or understands?

Population

AOS

Region

for

Exclude answers beyond respondent's first 50

Include skip/insufficiently familiar answers

1031 respondents

What the percentages mean: "Accept or lean toward P: 50% (40%)" means that 50% of respondents endorsed this answer inclusively (including multiple-answer endorsements) and 40% endorsed this answer exclusively (excluding multiple-answer endorsements).

These results should not be used for comparison to 2009 results due to different populations and parameters. For meaningful longitudinal comparisons, see the longitudinal analysis section.

Collapse accept and lean towards

Accept or lean towards:
understands

17.85% (17.75%)

Reject or lean against:
understands

0.00% (0.00%)

Accept or lean towards:
doesn't understand

67.12% (67.12%)

Reject or lean against:
doesn't understand

0.19% (0.00%)

Accept a combination of views

0.19%

Accept an alternative view

0.78%

The question is too unclear to answer

5.72%

There is no fact of the matter

1.84%

Agnostic/undecided

6.01%

Other

0.58%

N = 1031, excluding skipped & insufficiently familiar (122 respondents)

Alternative Views

15 target respondents indicated that they accept or lean toward an alternative view. The words used in their responses cluster as follows. These results are not filtered by AOS, region, etc.

SYST (3): systems (2) system (1)

Longitudinal comparison to 2009 survey

This question was not in the 2009 survey

Strongest correlations with main questions (target population)

r: -0.35	Consciousness: dualism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	9	134
Reject	172	376

n: 691

p < 0.0001

r: 0.34	Other minds: future AI systems
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	101	49
Reject	217	404

n: 771

p < 0.0001

r: 0.3	Mind uploading: survival
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	75	70
Reject	147	421

n: 713

p < 0.0001

r: 0.3	Mind: physicalism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	134	36
Reject	337	339

n: 846

p < 0.0001

r: 0.27	Quantum mechanics: many-worlds
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	42	58
Reject	47	261

n: 408

p < 0.0001

r: -0.27	Meta-ethics: moral realism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	87	79
Reject	518	188

n: 872

p < 0.0001

r: 0.26	Consciousness: functionalism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	89	56
Reject	162	386

n: 693

p < 0.0001

r: -0.26	Hard problem of consciousness: yes
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	70	82
Reject	418	162

n: 732

p < 0.0001

r: 0.24	Extended mind: yes
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	110	46
Reject	251	280

n: 687

p < 0.0001

r: -0.24	Moral judgment: cognitivism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	90	67
Reject	537	152

n: 846

p < 0.0001

r: 0.24	Other minds: current AI systems
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	11	139
Reject	14	607

n: 771

p < 0.0001

r: 0.24	Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	115	39
Reject	302	288

n: 744

p < 0.0001

r: 0.23	Abortion: permissible
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	155	6
Reject	493	137

n: 791

p < 0.0001

r: -0.23	Free will: libertarianism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	11	163
Reject	181	529

n: 884

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Practical reason: Humean
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	60	68
Reject	136	343

n: 607

p < 0.0001

r: -0.21	Time: A-theory
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	23	89
Reject	169	308

n: 589

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Truth: deflationary
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	69	93
Reject	158	496

n: 816

p < 0.0001

r: -0.21	Temporal ontology: presentism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	13	99
Reject	95	322

n: 529

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Other minds: plants
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	131
Reject	33	588

n: 771

p < 0.0001

r: 0.2	Laws of nature: Humean
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	76	85
Reject	186	471

n: 818

p < 0.0001

r: -0.2	Meaning of life: objective
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	105
Reject	277	333

n: 744

p < 0.0001

r: 0.2	Temporal ontology: eternalism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	63	50
Reject	169	247

n: 529

p < 0.0001

r: -0.2	Well-being: objective list
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	55	68
Reject	321	196

n: 640

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Experience machine: yes
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	38	128
Reject	82	599

n: 847

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	True contradictions: actual
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	103
Reject	49	491

n: 672

p < 0.0001

r: -0.19	Aesthetic value: objective
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	60	92
Reject	364	301

n: 817

p < 0.0001

r: -0.19	Morality: non-naturalism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	18	121
Reject	199	385

n: 723

p < 0.0001

r: -0.19	God: theism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	15	154
Reject	178	534

n: 881

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Normative ethics: consequentialism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	81	79
Reject	213	445

n: 818

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Cosmological fine-tuning: multiverse
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	81
Reject	59	404

n: 583

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Truth: correspondence
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	73	89
Reject	419	235

n: 816

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Possible worlds: concrete
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	135
Reject	20	582

n: 756

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	True contradictions: impossible
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	89	43
Reject	443	97

n: 672

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	99	78
Reject	512	192

n: 881

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Causation: primitive
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	15	109
Reject	125	369

n: 618

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Teletransporter: survival
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	81	68
Reject	227	404

n: 780

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	26	111
Reject	175	318

n: 630

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Causation: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	67	58
Reject	177	323

n: 625

p < 0.0001

r: 0.17	Time travel: metaphysically possible
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	80	56
Reject	235	310

n: 681

p < 0.0001

r: -0.17	Practical reason: Aristotelian
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	46	82
Reject	216	263

n: 607

p < 0.0001

r: 0.17	Material composition: nihilism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	9	72
Reject	26	294

n: 401

p: 0.0006

r: 0.17	Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	70	102
Reject	220	491

n: 883

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Meaning of life: nonexistent
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	43	92
Reject	109	492

n: 736

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Morality: expressivism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	25	115
Reject	55	529

n: 724

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	128	44
Reject	426	285

n: 883

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	75	97
Reject	413	298

n: 883

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Properties: transcendent universals
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	12	95
Reject	110	319

n: 536

p: 0.0002

r: 0.16	Footbridge: push
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	60	97
Reject	162	513

n: 832

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Quantum mechanics: collapse
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	11	89
Reject	65	243

n: 408

p: 0.0016

r: -0.16	Metaontology: heavyweight realism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	69
Reject	196	202

n: 496

p: 0.0005

r: -0.15	Immortality: yes
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	68	92
Reject	333	270

n: 763

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Law: legal positivism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	43	42
Reject	147	216

n: 448

p: 0.0012

r: 0.15	Human genetic engineering: permissible
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	126	27
Reject	391	173

n: 717

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Arguments for theism: cosmological
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	22	104
Reject	153	367

n: 646

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Gender: unreal
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	16	138
Reject	23	564

n: 741

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Grounds of intentionality: phenomenal
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	8	100
Reject	62	325

n: 495

p: 0.001

r: -0.15	Normative ethics: deontology
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	36	124
Reject	274	387

n: 821

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Personal identity: further-fact view
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	126
Reject	135	468

n: 746

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	Well-being: desire satisfaction
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	35	89
Reject	102	414

n: 640

p: 0.0003

r: 0.14	Free will: compatibilism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	131	43
Reject	426	287

n: 887

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Zombies: metaphysically possible
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	33	128
Reject	213	438

n: 812

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	117	55
Reject	553	158

n: 883

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Aesthetic experience: sui generis
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	35	60
Reject	160	212

n: 467

p: 0.0033

r: 0.14	Grounds of intentionality: interpretational
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	82
Reject	38	348

n: 495

p: 0.0026

r: 0.13	Units of selection: genes
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	60	43
Reject	151	185

n: 439

p: 0.0061

r: -0.13	Material composition: restrictivism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	26	55
Reject	145	175

n: 401

p: 0.0089

r: 0.13	Philosophical knowledge: none
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	136
Reject	15	587

n: 745

p: 0.0004

r: 0.13	Zombies: inconceivable
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	43	119
Reject	96	554

n: 812

p: 0.0002

r: 0.13	Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	88	84
Reject	281	430

n: 883

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Metaontology: anti-realism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	79
Reject	44	353

n: 495

p: 0.0044

r: -0.13	Quantum mechanics: epistemic
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	12	88
Reject	40	267

n: 407

p: 0.0101

r: -0.13	Abstract objects: Platonism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	61	95
Reject	307	342

n: 805

p: 0.0003

r: -0.12	A priori knowledge: yes
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	132	43
Reject	589	135

n: 899

p: 0.0002

r: -0.12	Interlevel metaphysics: grounding
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	80
Reject	156	251

n: 515

p: 0.0056

r: -0.12	Logic: classical
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	69	60
Reject	387	171

n: 687

p: 0.0014

r: 0.12	Grounds of intentionality: inferential
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	21	88
Reject	33	353

n: 495

p: 0.0082

r: -0.12	Arguments for theism: moral
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	6	119
Reject	63	455

n: 643

p: 0.0028

r: 0.12	Justification: reliabilism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	73	66
Reject	163	330

n: 632

p: 0.0037

r: 0.12	Morality: constructivism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	35	107
Reject	108	476

n: 726

p: 0.0019

r: -0.11	Continuum hypothesis: determinate
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	55
Reject	124	139

n: 347

p: 0.0329

r: 0.11	Propositions: sets
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	15	101
Reject	43	398

n: 557

p: 0.0072

r: 0.11	Consciousness: eliminativism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	14	129
Reject	22	525

n: 690

p: 0.0029

r: 0.11	Knowledge: empiricism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	99	46
Reject	306	273

n: 724

p: 0.003

r: 0.11	Personal identity: psychological view
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	89	56
Reject	292	315

n: 752

p: 0.0028

r: 0.11	Truth: epistemic
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	145
Reject	63	589

n: 814

p: 0.002

r: 0.11	Properties: nonexistent
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	17	90
Reject	37	391

n: 535

p: 0.0127

r: -0.11	Gender: biological
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	38	121
Reject	224	396

n: 779

p: 0.0026

r: -0.11	Epistemic justification: internalism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	56	110
Reject	289	360

n: 815

p: 0.0022

r: -0.1	Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	13	119
Reject	88	435

n: 655

p: 0.0074

r: 0.1	Properties: classes
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	19	88
Reject	42	387

n: 536

p: 0.016

r: -0.1	Causation: process/production
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	27	98
Reject	126	372

n: 623

p: 0.0112

r: -0.1	Belief or credence: belief
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	26	83
Reject	156	284

n: 549

p: 0.0199

r: -0.1	Hume: skeptic
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	44	86
Reject	195	281

n: 606

p: 0.0153

r: 0.1	Propositions: nonexistent
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	25	91
Reject	73	367

n: 556

p: 0.0215

r: 0.1	Morality: error theory
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	9	131
Reject	31	552

n: 723

p: 0.0089

r: 0.1	Causation: nonexistent
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	12	112
Reject	14	480

n: 618

p: 0.0161

r: -0.1	Propositions: structured entities
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	45	71
Reject	195	246

n: 557

p: 0.0233

r: 0.09	Well-being: hedonism/experientialism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	23	101
Reject	67	446

n: 637

p: 0.0187

r: -0.09	Politics: capitalism
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	43	101
Reject	209	335

n: 688

p: 0.0148

r: 0.09	True contradictions: possible but non-actual
Chinese room: understands	Accept	Reject
Accept	8	124
Reject	22	518

n: 672

p: 0.0161

Strongest correlations with demographic questions (target population)

r: 0.13	AOS: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	35	144
Reject	54	690

n: 923

p < 0.0001

r: -0.13	Philosopher: Aristotle
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	17	132
Reject	124	420

n: 693

p: 0.0008

r: 0.12	Philosopher: Hume
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	38	111
Reject	88	456

n: 693

p: 0.001

r: 0.11	AOS: General Philosophy of Science
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	30	149
Reject	73	671

n: 923

p: 0.0006

r: 0.1	Philosopher: James
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	12	137
Reject	16	528

n: 693

p: 0.0067

r: 0.1	Philosopher: Peirce
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	6	143
Reject	6	538

n: 693

p: 0.0076

r: 0.1	Philosopher: Spinoza
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	9	140
Reject	8	536

n: 693

p: 0.0078

r: -0.09	AOS: Metaphysics
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	33	146
Reject	207	537

n: 923

p: 0.0078

r: 0.09	Region of PhD: Canada
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	11	128
Reject	16	527

n: 682

p: 0.0254

r: 0.08	Philosopher: Carnap
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	13	136
Reject	29	515

n: 693

p: 0.0273

r: -0.08	Region of nationality: United States
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	79	94
Reject	399	304

n: 876

p: 0.0151

r: -0.08	AOS: 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	10	169
Reject	81	663

n: 923

p: 0.0174

r: 0.08	Region of nationality: Oceania
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	18	155
Reject	31	672

n: 876

p: 0.0217

r: 0.08	AOS: Decision Theory
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	9	170
Reject	20	724

n: 923

p: 0.0221

r: 0.07	AOS: Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Chinese room: understands	Yes	No
Accept	21	158
Reject	68	676

n: 923

p: 0.0438