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Article 5549 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: A New Chinese Broom.
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Date: 11 May 92 11:25:52 GMT
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> From:    markv@pixar.com (Mark VandeWettering)
> 
> 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?
> 
> Yeah, we tried it.  Unfortunately, the only sentence we could get out of 
> the room was an order for Sweet and Sour Bitter Melon. 
> 
> 			Mark T. VandeWettering

Interesting: with all of Chinese literature, art, history and culture
to draw on, take-away food is uppermost in the educated mind of 
Mark T. VandeWettering.

Still, when I think of America, I (sometimes) think of MacDonalds. And
Burger King and Wendy's and Taco Bell and Jack In The Box and Cock
Robin... looks like I need some reconstructing too...:-)

Anyroad, I am vegetarian. Melon sounds good to me.

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