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>From: mcdermott-drew@CS.YALE.EDU (Drew McDermott)
Subject: Re: Searle and the Chinese Room
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  In article <2185@ucl-cs.uucp> G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:
  >
  >I am still at a loss here; the CR has no computers in it. Or has it?
  >Searle may refer to a Turing Test, but the CR is pure gedanken, with
  >one human and no computers.
  >

Of course there's a computer: Searle himself.  Many people doubt that
a computer simulating a mind would be a mind, but no one doubts that a
mind simulating a computer would be a computer.

                                             -- Drew McDermott


