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Article 2620 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Subject: Re: Searle and the Chinese Room
Message-ID: <364@tdatirv.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 92 17:31:20 GMT
References: <1991Dec5.210724.12480@cs.yale.edu> <1991Dec8.192843.6951@psych.toronto.edu> <1991Dec11.170157.27053@cs.yale.edu> <1991Dec11.203452.9419@psych.toronto.edu> <317@tdatirv.UUCP> <5913@skye.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <5913@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) writes:
|In article <317@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
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|>A virtual person is the set of behaviors, memories and attitudes that
|>are instantiated by the operation of an algorithm in my brain, but which
|>do not alter my own memories or attitudes.
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|Is that really suppose to be all there is to a person, a set of
|behaviors, memories, and attitudes?

That is really all that can be *verified* to exist from the outside.
[Unless one wishes to count the body as well].  Thus that is all that
has any scientific relevance.  Anything else is, at present, merely
unfounded speculation or philosophical bias.  It may exist, but there
is no way of telling.
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uunet!tdatirv!sarima				(Stanley Friesen)



