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>From: Michael Chui <mchui@greatwhite.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Chinese Room, from a different perspective
Message-ID: <1991Nov14.011327.17353@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Keywords: ai philosophy searle expert system
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington.
References: <1991Nov7.151439.3353@osceola.cs.ucf.edu> <1991Nov11.011527.28514@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 01:13:22 EST

In article <1991Nov11.011527.28514@midway.uchicago.edu> gal2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Jacob Galley) writes:
[ Chinese room summary ]
>I argue: His assertion that the guy doesn't know Cantonese is fine, but
>what about the guy-room system together, as one entity. Doesn't IT know

	Searle anticipates (actually, responds to arguments put forth when
he first described the Chinese Room) this move, and claims to have refuted it
in the original Chinese Room paper in The Brain and Behavioral Sciences.
In fact, he even called it something like the "system response."

Michael Chui
mchui@copper.ucs.indiana.edu


