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>From: lintz@neptune.cis.udel.edu (Brian Lintz)
Subject: Re: Chinese Room
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In article <841@kepler1.rentec.com> fcaggian@rentec.com (Frank Caggiano) writes:
>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


