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From: "Mike Moran" <mxm@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: The Chinese Room argument by Searle
In-Reply-To: seann@nyc.pipeline.com's message of 22 Dec 1995 10:52:33 -0500
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Sean Henry writes:
In article <4bek81$93t@pipe4.nyc.pipeline.com> seann@nyc.pipeline.com (Sean Henry) writes:


seann> On 22 Dec 1995 in article <Re: The Chinese Room argument by Searle>, 'Tim
seann> Menzies <timm>' wrote: 
 
>>> This is as far as I've seen the argument go.  I dunno if any  
>>> A.I. skeptics have come up with a nifty counter-counter-  
>>> argument.  Maybe Menzies or Minski can let us know.    
>>> 
 
>> like i say , this is an OLD OLD argument: 
 
seann> [ nice chain of referenced deleted ] 

	You may also be interested in looking at an exchange of
	letters between Dennett and Searle in the 'The New York Review
	of Books' of Dec 21st 1995 (p 83-85), although it doesn't seem
	to add much more to the argument.
 
seann> Thanks! I'll have to see if I can get the  
seann> 'The New York Review of Books' articles.   
seann> I give points to Searle for at least coming up  
seann> with understandable arguments, when I read  
seann> Penrose I just get a headache :-) 
 
seann> Sean 

	I personally grew rather tired of the arguments surrounding
	the Chinese Room after a short while. This was more because of
	the general style of argument, rather than the content. 

	It seems to be a hook on which peoples egos can get caught
	rather easily,

			Thanks,

				Mike
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