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Article 3493 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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Subject: Re: Intelligence Testing
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>From: gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman)
Date: 5 Feb 92 09:23:38 GMT
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In article  <42598@dime.cs.umass.edu> Joseph O'Rourke writes:
]In article <12183@optima.cs.arizona.edu> gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:
]>8b. There isn't any theory or argument that can show any sort of
]>relationship between consciousness and the particular syntactic
]>manipulations that the computer is using.
]>
]>What I was looking for in this discussion is an argument that would
]>make 8 false.  Needless to say, I have been sorely disapointed.
]
]Your expectations are unrealistic.

I wasn't looking for a mathematical theory, just a coherent argument.

]In the
]face of our ignorance, it seems premature to hold rigidly that X cannot
]give rise to consciousness. 

Quite so.  But there isn't anyone in this discussion who takes that
view, as far as I can tell.
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					David Gudeman
gudeman@cs.arizona.edu
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