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>From: zeleny@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: The Challenge
Keywords: Searle, Chinese Room
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Date: 7 Apr 92 17:39:55 GMT
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In article <1992Apr7.153156.10030@cs.yale.edu> 
mcdermott-drew@CS.YALE.EDU (Drew McDermott) writes:

>That's true.  Let me try to state the point noninsultingly: I have a
>lot of respect for Searle, when he sticks to his home turf of the
>"logic of introspection" (a phrase I just made up).  But it's obvious
>that he has never taken a course on operating systems, and that his
>style of rebutting arguments against computationalists would be quite
>different if he had.

Let me try to state the counterpoint noninsultingly: I have some respect
for you, when you stick to your home turf of the non-monotonic logic (as
little as I respect the subject itself).  But it's obvious that you have
never taken a course on the philosophy of mind, and that your style of
rebutting Searle's dismissal of the System's Reply arguments would be quite
different if you had.

Incidentally, if you sincerely believe that any information about operating
systems might change the outcome of this stalemate, I urge you to try it
out on me.  Even though I've never bothered to take any courses in the
computer "science", I doubt that you would be able to convincingly extend
your condescending characterization of Searle to my own case.

> -- Drew


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