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>From: rc@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Richard Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Searle Agrees with Strong AI?
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Date: 19 Jan 92 14:35:23 GMT
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sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:

> In article <1992Jan16.220144.8148@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs
> |I personally think that the case against 1 and 2 is made compellingly
> |by the example of the giant lookup table -- a ridiculous example,
> |impossible in practice but not in principle, but enough to make the
> |case.  I think that it's like that any reasonable-in-practice
> |mechanisms that has the right behaviour will have mentality, however.
> 
> Hey, I like this.  It summarizes my position better than I have myself.
> 
> None of the cheating approaches to passing the Turing Test seem 'real'
> to me, in the sense of being actually constructable (as opposed to
> theoretically constructable).

Everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that the program
(presumably in an improved and more powerful version) which Searle
assumed was being implemented by the Chinese Room was itself
essentially an indexed lookup table, Roger Schank's table of
scripts -- in particular Searle discussed a restaurant script.

Since Schank suggests, quite plausibly, that much of our daily,
regularized, mundane behavior -- until some interrupt occurs, and
often even then -- is in fact taken from such a lookup table, it
really isn't "cheating" for a computer to use one.

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