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>From: petersow@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Wayne Peterson)
Subject: Re: The Challenge
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Keywords: Searle, Chinese Room
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Micheal Gemar writes:

"One does *not* have to be a solipsist to hold this position.  I am quite      happy to believe that other entities *really* have minds.  That is why I am concerned about how one would determine such a thing.  On the other hand, those who are happy merely
 to *interpret* a thing as acting *as if* it had a mind seem not to be all that committed to the reality of minds. "

Here, here someone who actually discerns the difference between the
brain and the mind.  How tiresome it is to hear those who assume they
are the same, they use this assumption to prove that computers could be 
able to think just by modelling the computer after the brain.  The trick is
not to make machines intelligent but to make humans machines.


-wayne
"The chemicals made me do it."


