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>From: daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: The Systems Reply I
Message-ID: <1992Mar28.141316.16968@oracorp.com>
Date: 28 Mar 92 14:13:16 GMT
Organization: ORA Corporation
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jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:

>It's always open to you to try to show that some argument against
>computer understanding would also apply to humans. What's wrong, I
>think, is to try to get out of this by demanding that other people
>prove the opposite.

I can only reiterate what I have said before. If you wish to show that
computers lack something that humans possess, it seems to me that you
need to show (a) that computers lack it, and (b) that humans possess
it. If you only prove (a) then you have not proved your point.

Daryl McCullough
ORA Corp.
Ithaca, NY


