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>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: Definition of understanding
Message-ID: <1992Feb29.160514.7195@psych.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1992Feb28.022105.28548@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Feb28.165550.13014@psych.toronto.edu> <1992Feb28.191119.21637@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: Sat, 29 Feb 1992 16:05:14 GMT

In article <1992Feb28.191119.21637@ccu.umanitoba.ca> zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum) writes:
>In article <1992Feb28.165550.13014@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>>In article <1992Feb28.022105.28548@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:
>>>bunch of rules could produce another mind.  But people with the
>>>capacity to memorize a whole Chinese-room rule set would be vastly
>>>different to anything in our experience: 
>>
>>But Dave, surely "maybe things get radically different when they get
>>really complex" is just no argument at all. As I suggested earlier,
>
>Surely you can't be serious! So there is no life, gee I keep looking at
>biological cells, and the only thing I find is a bunch of chemicals!

Straw men are a heck of a lot easier to fight against than real people, eh?
I didn't say that things never get radically different as they get more
complex. I said that assuming they do is no argument. The rest of your
post follows from this (intentional, I assume) misreading.
-- 
Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
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