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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Books on philosophy of AI
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In article <D3DLF2.34L@news.cern.ch> hallam@dxal18.cern.ch writes:

>Just don't spend too long getting wound up by Searle's chinese room :-)
>I think the true interest of the problem is not how to squish it but how
>to squish it in a novel way without writing a paper the length of a novel.
>Its a pretty silly argument and he employs circular reasoning in a very
>annoying fashion "If I don't understand chinese does it make sense to say
>that myself plus a few bits of paper can understand it?". The bits of paper
>being precisely the computer program which he is fighting against. Huh!

So what's the circularity?
