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>From: onstott@a.cs.okstate.edu (ONSTOTT CHARLES OR)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Searle Agrees with Strong AI?
Message-ID: <1992Jan25.052014.7980@a.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 92 05:20:14 GMT
References: <1992Jan22.195158.19394@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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>From article <1992Jan22.195158.19394@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, by chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers):
> In article <1992Jan20.222309.16726@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com writes:
> 
>>I don't consider 1. to be a failure of Strong AI as a philosophical
>>position. Strong AI simply claims that implementing the right program
>>produces understanding. If it happens to be impossible to produce the
>>right program without using a human brain, then the Strong AI position
>>becomes vacuously true.
> 
> Strong AI makes an existence claim: that there exists a program P such
> that implementing P is sufficient for mentality.
> 

I think that your definition is close; but, so far as Searle means it,
it might need some revision for proper interpretation.  The definition
isn't necessarily wrong; it is just a little ambiguous.

Strong AI makes an existence claim: that there exists a program P such
that implementing P is sufficient for mentality.  Mentality is the 
function, process, or whatever of the human mind.  Such that, if such
a program were to be developed, that program actually WOULD be 
IDENTICAL to the process of the human(or in some cases, particular animal)
brain.

BCnya,
  Charles O. Onstott, III

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