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>From: blenko-tom@CS.YALE.EDU (Tom Blenko)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Chinese room miscellanea
Message-ID: <1992Mar20.053936.5893@cs.yale.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 92 05:39:36 GMT
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daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough) writes:
|mcdermott-drew@CS.YALE.EDU (Drew McDermott) writes:
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|[Challenge for comp.ai.philosophy to produce the definitive Chinese
|Room argument and refutation]
|
|Great idea! Imagine, actually trying to accomplish something in a
|newsgroup. Are the pro-Searle people game?

I'm game. I nominate John Searle to represent his own position and
rebut the opposing positions. Of course, he's already done this, so
half the challenge is already completed.

Most of the people who read this newsgroup have not read and understood
Searle's work (I infer this from their postings). Other than
transcribing and posting his work (which is probably a copyright
violation), I don't know what can be done about this situation. I've
always supposed that anyone who wished to familiarize himself or
herself with this material would do so. Zeleny seems adequate to the
task of identifying and exhorting those innocents who post before doing
their homework.

	Tom


