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>From: bruce@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Bruce Stephens)
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Subject: Re: Simulated Brain
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Date: 13 Oct 92 10:52:35 GMT
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>>>>> On 12 Oct 92 22:40:08 GMT, minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) said:

> In other words, does Searle suggest any reason why the mind-stuff is
> secreted by the hydrocarbons -- rather than the equally plausible
> (and more widely believed) hypothesis that the breath of life comes
> directly from the Good Lord?

As far as I've been able to make out, the answer is No, he doesn't.


