ChatGPT on intention: The Chinese Room and Lucy on the beach, plus comedians

In my first year at Johns Hopkins I took a course called, I believe, “Types of Philsophy.” One lecture in the course was organized around a thought experiment that was one of the strangest things I’d ever heard. It went like this: Some explorers come across a desert island in the middle of nowhere. As they get out of their Zodiac and step out on the beach they see some writing. I believe it was the Lord’s Prayer, but Wordsworth’s Lucy poem, “A slumber did my spirit seal,” has also been used in this little tale. The question is ...