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Article 3641 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Subject: Re: Robotic Follies
In-Reply-To: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk's message of 10 Feb 92 20: 57:27 GMT
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jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:

   (4) In many cases, the quality of the discussion would be improved
   if the participants had to do some reading rather than just respond
   to postings with whatever their views were at the moment.

Given that Chalmers made a detailed bibliography available, Would you
say that the quality of your "Chinese Room" discussions improved as a
result of all that reading? For some reason, I kept thinking that you
were just responding with whatever your views were at that moment ...  ;-)

Do you find any of the published refutations of "Chinese Room" worthy
of discussion?

oz




