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>From: daryl@oracorp.com
Subject: Re: Virtual Person
Message-ID: <1992Jan20.145336.2132@oracorp.com>
Organization: ORA Corporation
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1992 14:53:36 GMT

Drew McDermott writes:

>    Strong AI is simply the claim that a machine with the right
>    behavior must, therefore understand,

> I don't.  At the risk of repeating Chalmers, let me point out how the
> two claims could be different.  Let's use the label "process strong
> AI" for the position that executing the right kind of program would
> create a process that constituted a mind; and "behaviorist strong AI"
> for McCullough's position.

I understand the distinction that you are making, but I would say that
Searle doesn't even have a good argument against behaviorist Strong AI
(which I think would be easier to refute than process Strong AI).

Daryl McCullough
ORA Corp.
Ithaca, NY


