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>From: chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)
Subject: Re: Searle and the Chinese Room
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In article <8dEvbVS00iUzA2j64r@andrew.cmu.edu> fb0m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Franklin Boyle) writes:

>In what sense is an implementation any less syntactic than the program
>itself?

The program is just marks on paper.  The implementation is a complex
physical system with rich internal causal organization.

-- 
Dave Chalmers                            (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)      
Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
"It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."


