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Article 7135 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Simulated Brain
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Date: 7 Oct 92 02:15:43 GMT
References: <1992Sep29.151801.8240@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <740@trwacs.fp.trw.com> <BARRY.92Oct6151915@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <BARRY.92Oct6151915@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu> barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort) writes:

>Daniel Dennett ... saw no reason
>why intelligence and consciousness could not reside in a sufficiently
>powerful computer processor.

I'm sure he intended the processor to be running suitable software :-)
Given that rider, this is hardly controversial. Contrary to popular
opinion, even Searle of Chinese Roon fame agrees with that, as he made
plain in the Jan 1990 edition of Scientific American.
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Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
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