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Subject: Re: Chinese Room
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lintz@neptune.cis.udel.edu (Brian Lintz) writes:

> In article <841@kepler1.rentec.com> fcaggian@rentec.com (Frank Caggiano) writ
> >Can anyone tell me if the chinese room has ever been attempted
> >using humans and what the results were?  Is it even possible?
> 
> I strongly doubt that it is possible. Searle claims the human in
> the room has a book that has rules for decoding Chinese sentences
> and coming up with proper responses. I think a book like that is
> impossible, so the entire experiment is impossible to do.
> 
> Brian Lintz
> lintz@udel.edu

Depends.  If the book is for a Chinese Eliza program then it's
easy to write.  Depends on what you mean by a 'proper' response.
If by 'proper' you mean 'intelligent' then the impossibility of
writing the book implies the impossibility of AI.  IMO, the book
is possible to write, but contains lots of differential equations
which make it very hard to read. :-)

Tom Holroyd
tomh@bambi.ccs.fau.edu


