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Article 2547 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Ignore Searle and be happier
Message-ID: <1992Jan8.165208.26637@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 92 16:52:08 GMT
References: <1992Jan2.161407.20515@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> <1992Jan2.175438.20066@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1992Jan7.203119.6231@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
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In article <1992Jan7.203119.6231@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> santas@inf.ethz.ch (Filippos Santas) writes:
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>It receives some stimuli (temperature, light intensity etc) and it reacts
>according to its current state. Note that this state is not 
>memory (or knowledge) as the man in our example has no memory (or knowledge) of 
>where he is.

  State is memory.  If you don't believe so, try resetting the state of
your computer back to where it was when you originally unpacked it.  This
will require reformatting all the disks.


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