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Article 4296 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Monkey Room
Message-ID: <1992Mar6.004252.1593@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 6 Mar 92 00:42:52 GMT
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Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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In article <9203031955.AA11770@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> GUNTHER@WMAVM7.VNET.IBM.COM ("Mike Gunther") writes:
>a Turing Test.  We open the room and find only a monkey, hitting
>teletype keys at random.  It just so happens that the monkey's
>keystrokes produced "intelligent" conversation up until the time the
>room was opened.
>
>This thought-experiment seems to contradict several ideas-- the Turing
>Test, behaviorism, functionalism, and the Systems Reply for starters.
>Any comments?
>
This does not contradict anything.
1) how likely is this to happen.
2) It can be argued that up until the room was opened, the 
monkey & teletype formed a system that (just by the random
ordering of atoms) was intelligent! When the room was
opened the system died! What is there that precludes that
a bunch atoms will not come together (randomly) and
form a complete human being, intact with memories and
everything! Let us assume that he was your copy in
every detail, now is he intelligent?
Same as the monkey argument!
>
>--Mike


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