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Subject: Re: Nobody Home (Was: Human Intelligence vs Machine Intelligence)
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>From: system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 09:46:01 NZDST
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  It's not that Searle doesn't understand the systems reply - he just 
doesn't
buy it.  I'd guess that he just doesn't accept the behaviorist 
assumption
at the basis of the Turing test.  The whole point of the Chinese Room 
is
that you can pass all the behavioral tests you want but if there ain't
nobody home, there ain't nobody home.

bv

But isn't part of the point that we can't prove that I'm "home" or 
you're "home" or the dolphins are "home". Perhaps "consciousness" 
equals "a very complicated behaviour pattern is home" or even "a 
humungous lookup table is home".

Which I suppose leaves you with either
a) by their fruits you shall know them; OR
b) looking for a theory of consciousness.

-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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