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>From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
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Subject: Re: Daniel Dennett (was Re: Commenting on the posting
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Date: 19 Nov 91 19:00:47 GMT
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In article <15015@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:

>Searle is commonly supposed to have said this. In fact, Searle is not so
>foolish. He has said quite clearly that machines _can_ think, since we
>are biological machines, _but_ that a machine could not think _solely_
>by virtue of _syntactic_ manipulations. That is his point in a nutshell.

Thanks. I have rarely heard Searle's position stated so clearly.


--Mike



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