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>From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Monkey Room
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Date: 3 Mar 92 21:32:08 GMT
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In-reply-to: GUNTHER@WMAVM7.VNET.IBM.COM ("Mike Gunther")

In article <9203031955.AA11770@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, GUNTHER@WMAVM7 ("Mike Gunther") writes:
>Suppose we are given a sealed room + teletype setup which has passed
>a Turing Test.  We open the room and find only a monkey, hitting
>teletype keys at random.  It just so happens that the monkey's
>keystrokes produced "intelligent" conversation up until the time the
>room was opened.

>This thought-experiment seems to contradict several ideas-- the Turing
>Test, behaviorism, functionalism, and the Systems Reply for starters.
>Any comments?

Yes.  It also contradicts reality.

In other words, so what?
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-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)


