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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: Searle and the Chinese Room
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>> 
>> What I mean by virtual persons in such a straightforward case is simply
>> the processes implementing Yin and Yang (and not any other process on
>> the same machine, such as the X-window server, which doesn't have all
>> the neat person-implementing properties that Searle is hypothesizing).


I am still at a loss here; the CR has no computers in it. Or has it?
Searle may refer to a Turing Test, but the CR is pure gedanken, with
one human and no computers.

Or ordinateurs:-)

>>   >And why can't *I*, by performing the appropriate operations, instantiate
>>   >one myself?
>> 
>> You can!  You can even instantiate two or more at the same time.
>> 
>>                                              -- Drew McDermott
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