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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: Intelligence Testing
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Date: 23 Jan 92 21:15:11 GMT
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In article <42143@dime.cs.umass.edu> orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:

>I cannot find a mention of "internal self-awareness" in any definition
>of "understand" in a dictionary.

I think Dave Chalmers is right in saying that we should think of
consciousness whenever Searle says "understanting", "intentionality",
etc.  The idea that we could refute Searle on the basis of what
dictionaries say about one of the key words seems a bit bizarre.

In this debate, people are using words like "understand" as a way to
refer to the whole cluster of intentionality, consciousness and so
forth that Searle is talking about.  Sometimes, to suggesting that
it all turns on one word, I write things like "understanding, or
consciousness, or intentionality, or whatever".


