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It's the Chinese room thought experiment.
Hadn't heard about it before (or maybe I did but never looked into it), so I just went and found it in Wikipedia and will be reading all about it.
So thanks for the info!
No worries. The person above did a good job explaining it although they kind of mashed it together with the imagery from Plato's allegory of the cave.