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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Searle, again
Message-ID: <1992Jan10.220439.26242@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 92 22:04:39 GMT
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In article <5952@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>In article <1992Jan08.230618.31038@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:

>>This is not to say it's necessarily wrong.  But until we have some proof
>>one way or the other, the Chinese Room argument only proves that if you
>>believe in "causal powers" you don't believe in strong AI, and so what?
>
>What do you mean?  Instead of "causal powers" think "whatever
>it is about the brain that lets it support intentionality/
>understanding/etc".  

  Give us some instrument which measure intentionality/understanding/etc
and then perhaps we can be sure we are talking about the same thing.

  As long as understanding can only be observed internally to the system
which is reputed to have understanding, we must assume that there is
no evidence that such a thing exists.  Perhaps Searle's argument should
be treated as evidence that the brain/mind does not support intentionality
understanding/etc, and it is all just some elaborate illusion which we
are suffering.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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