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>From: michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar)
Subject: Re: Searle and the Chinese Room
Message-ID: <1991Dec13.044040.20059@psych.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <8dEvbVS00iUzA2j64r@andrew.cmu.edu> <1991Dec12.194529.28355@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1991 04:40:40 GMT

In article <1991Dec12.194529.28355@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:
>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.

It would be helpful if you elaborated on this, especially the notion
of "causal organization".  

- michael


