Representational Formalism in Which Syntax and Semantics Are Congruent: Towards the Resolution of Searle's Chinese Room Challenge

A recently developed formalism for structural representation, called Evolving Transformations System (ETS)—in which syntax and semantics are congruent—suggests an unforeseen constructive resolution to the ubiquitous syntax/semantics incompatibility issue raised by Searle's Chinese Room argument. The ETS is an outcome of long-term research work directed at the development of a category-oriented formalism for structural object representation, which turned out to be an event-based representation.