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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Brainiac in memoriam (was "algorithmic" vs "heuristic")
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In article <5994meINNgl5@aden.ai.cs.yale.edu>,
Drew McDermott <mcdermott-drew@cs.yale.edu> wrote:
>I remember staring at the pieces (the masonite, the screws, the wires) in
>befuddlement, thinking, Where's the brain?  Then enlightenment dawned: in any
>intelligent system there is no intelligent component.

I think you mean "not necessarily", otherwise you have a novel argument that the
CR room is not intelligent (unless you mean that Searle isn't ...)

>To this day I consider
>this a key insight of AI research, one that a surprising number of researchers
>fail to grasp.  (I have in mind people that require that the methods their
>programs use are "semantic," not merely "syntactic"; or "are AI" as opposed to
>"OR"; or some other empty distinction.)

Welcome to the Cartesian Theatre; please take a seat.
-- 
<J Q B>

