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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Room with a Worm's Eye View.
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Date: 14 Jan 92 15:59:32 GMT
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There is a person inside a room, who has set of machine instructions
(actions they can carry out) and a "LISP to SPARC machine code"
translation to manual. In comes LISP on cards. The person, called Jo,
translates into machine instructions, and then executes the resulting
instructions . The function of the overall LISP program is to carry
out Natural Language comprehension tests in English. English is
supplied. But Jo only executes the program plus its data as machine
instructions for the SPARC. Jo takes the output and returns it on
cards with English text (unless the program crashes) as laid out in
the program.

Jo plus the room plus the rules and translation manuals, as a System,
is clearly speaking English, in terms of the Turing test.  The SUN
shines in through the window and as we peek inside, we that Jo is
executing a large number of machine instructions by hand.

Gordo.

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