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160 | www.limina-graz.eu Frank G. Bosman | The turning of Turing’s tables through a slot in the door to the person inside the room. With the help of the instruction manual, but – and this is important! – without having any idea about the contents of the conversation, this person replies with Chi- nese characters to the one outside. The one outside thinks he is having a conversation, because the “right” output has been given to a certain input, but the person inside never has the impression that a conversation is taking place. This is Searle’s objection to the Turing test: it measures the ability to emulate a conversation, not having one (“Searle’s Room” between “Level G66” and “Level G67”). TOM, on his part, is convinced that he is not stuck in a Chinese Room (“Lev- el B20”) and has frequently debated such a belief with the crew members prior to the events of the game (“Chinese Room” between “Level E46” and “Level E47”), provoking one of them – Mikhail – to comment on TOM’s “obsession” with both the Turing test and the Chinese Room. TOM insists that he is “conscious” and not just emulating human consciousness. But it is Ava who takes the thought experiment of the Chinese Room (and the Tu- ring test) one step further by asking rhetorically: “What if both the people passing Chinese words are reading from instruction books?” (“Level B19”) Discussing human morality and creativity During the course of the game, Ava and TOM discuss multiple topics, in- creasingly existential in nature, most of them related to notions commonly and exclusively associated with humanity, like morality and creativity. To start with the second one, in “Level C24”, TOM refers to an earlier puzzle Ava has solved (“Level A3”) by throwing a box through a window. TOM: “I simply had never thought to throw a box through a window. That is crea- tivity. Thinking outside of the box.” TOM elaborates further on the topic, differentiating between lateral (com- monly associated with both humans and A.I.s) and divergent thinking (as- sociated exclusively with humans): “You believe yourself to be creative, but in mathematical terms creativity is merely constrained chaos. […] I have discerned that creativity is divergent thinking. Creating an organic solution to a problem. In the human mind divergent thoughts are created and then curated by the frontal lobe. I can create divergent thoughts and moderate them. So I am creative” (“Level C26”). TOM is rejecting the idea that crea- “That is creativity. Thinking outside of the box.”