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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
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Subject: Re: Searle (was Re: Daniel Dennett (was Re: Comme
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Date: 25 Nov 91 01:15:00 GMT
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In article <94066@brunix.UUCP> 
cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:

>Unless I am terribly confused about Searle's point in the "Chinese room"
>argument, it stems from a simplistic confusion of software and hardware. 

Not only are you terribly confused about Searle's point; not having
bothered to read his article, you are terribly ignorant to argue about it.
In "Minds, Brains, and Programs" Searle explicitly says: "let the
individual internalise all of these elements of the system. [...]  All the
same, he understands nothing of the Chinese, and *a fortiori* neither does
the system, because there isn't anything in the system that isn't in him."
(See the Boden anthology, p.73.)


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