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>From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
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Subject: Re: Comments on Searle - What could causal powers be?
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In article <1992May13.001033.14320@ccu.umanitoba.ca> zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca 
(Antun Zirdum) writes:
>Anyway, it works if you always keep stopping short of
>the final logical position this brings you to.

I'm curious as to what problem you think dualism leads to.

>I suppose also that functionalism demands that a kidney be
>implimentable in a school of fish (actually I'm sure of it!),
>but what this actually means I have no idea. Does it mean that
>the SOF kidney will actually process blood the same way as a
>real kidney, or will it process "information" the same way.
>	In one case we are not interested in it because I can
>not have a School of fish transplanted into me as a kidney
>replacement. I think that you do not have to look very hard
>to see the same kind of dichotomy between the school of
>fish intelligence, and the real intelligence.

Boy, you just can't tell the players without a scorecard.  Do you realize
you're supporting Searle, here?  You're saying that the difference between
a physical kidney and a simulation of a kidney is the same as that between
"real intelligence" and intelligence simulated on a computer (in this case,
a school of fish).  That's Searle exactly; see Sci. Am. 1/90, p. 29.

However, if an implementation of an algorithm is all that's necessary for
intelligence, *any* implementation will do, and has "real" intelligence.


