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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Chinese Room debunked
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 20:51:44 GMT
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In article <3sf4t9$g3f@nntp5.u.washington.edu>,
Gary Forbis  <forbis@cac.washington.edu> wrote:
...........
>I uderstand the support for the position that experience is reuqired for
>human-like behavior is that if it was not required it would have been 
>eliminated by natural selection or never have arisen in the first place.
>
Sorry, I do not see this. The fact that human-like behavior arose on the
basis of experience does not imply that such behavior cannot be produced
without experience. Humans managed to reproduce flying in a way different
than evolution achieved it.

>--gary forbis@u.washington.edu

Andrzej
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