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Article 1696 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Dennett on Edelman--what a total loss
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Date: 27 Nov 91 21:34:39 GMT
References: <1991Nov21.145350.5725@husc3.harvard.edu> <JMC.91Nov24203029@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <57569@netnews.upenn.edu> <1991Nov27.031545.11235@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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In article <1991Nov27.031545.11235@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:
>He comes close to saddling AI researchers with the ridiculously strong
>claim that "the brain is a Turing machine" (a claim that I note has
>been bandied about a number of times in this newsgroup, almost always
>by anti-AI proponents looking for straw figures). 

Really, I thought they were arguing that artificial intelligences
on computers (_not_ brains) were FSAs (_not_ Turing Machines).


