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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Penrose and Searle (was Re: Roger Penrose's fixed ideas)
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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 17:46:07 GMT
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In article <786566258snz@michaels.demon.co.uk>,
Rodney York <books@michaels.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Jim Balter attacks Searle's:
>
>    "But now if we are trying to take seriously the idea that the
>    "brain is a digital computer, we get the uncomfortable result
>    "that we could make a system that does just what the brain does
>    "out of pretty much anything.  [Including] cats and  mice and
>    "cheese or levers or water pipes or pigeons ...
>
>by criticising "uncomfortable result" and discussing the impracticability
>of building computers out of cheese.
>
>I don't myself have a firm opinion (not enough facts yet), but Jim is taking
>advantage of Searle's badly-expressed argument to rubbish the ideas behind it.
                                       ^^^^^^^^
What argument? Searle has no sensible arguments and this is why he resorts
to "gut-feelings" - i.e. a so called "intuition pump" which is just another
name for reinforcement of subconscious biases.
>--
>Rodney York

Andrzej
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