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>From: chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)
Subject: Re: Penrose on Man vs. Machine
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In article <1992Jan20.124249.7832@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

>DC:
>>That's correct.  "Strong AI" names a very specific claim, and is not
>>a catchall for every view that an AI practitioner might hold.
>
>What specific claim might that be?

The claim that an appropriately programmed computer could think (feel,
understand,...).  More precisely, the claim that there exists a program
P such that implementing P is sufficient for mentality.

-- 
Dave Chalmers                            (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)      
Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
"It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."


