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>From: michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar)
Subject: Re: The Chinese Room (or Number Five's Alive)
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <7341@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
Message-ID: <1992Mar29.185454.21236@psych.toronto.edu>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1992 18:54:54 GMT

In article <7341@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> matthew@cs.uq.oz.au writes:

[story of development of "artificial people" deleted for brevity]

>	Apart from implementation difficulties, what's wrong with the
>picture? If you honestly believe Searle's story about the chinese room,
>how would you know that the artificial people didn't have feelings too?
>

Well, I will perhaps feel differently about this issue once I see AI types
worrying over the moral implications of unplugging their machines.  Until
*they* take this possibility seriously, I see no reason for me to.

- michael




