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>From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
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Subject: Re: Simulated Brain
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Date: 12 Oct 92 17:09:30 GMT
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In article <26609@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:

>Contrary to popular
>opinion, even Searle of Chinese Roon fame agrees with that, as he made
>plain in the Jan 1990 edition of Scientific American.

That a mere machine could think?  I don't remember any such statement
by Searle.

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