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>From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: Searle, again
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Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1991 23:36:15 GMT
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In article <5814@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>If Searle's right about the Chinese Room without sensors, I don't
>see why adding sensors would suddenly solve the problem.  Do you?

I think you're playing tricks here.  I talked about incorporating a
huge amount of sensory and motor experience, and the concepts associated
with them, into an AI program.  You're talking about "adding sensors."
No, adding sensors would in itself do no more than adding fins and
fog lights.  Creating the facilities to interact with the outside world
and to accumulate experience with it is a different story.


