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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Strong AI and panpsychism
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Date: 12 Feb 92 04:02:18 GMT
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In article <1992Feb11.223848.7203@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> 
chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:

>(Incidentally, the more I think about Putnam's proof, the more I come
>to the conclusion that this discussion is irrelevant, because it
>seems to me that his "FSAs" don't have the required counterfactual
>behaviour, especially in response to inputs and outputs.)

Given that their behavior is subject to the same physical laws as that of
physically implemented FSA's, I find this claim to be wildly implausible.

>-- 
>Dave Chalmers                            (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)      
>Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
>"It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."


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