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>From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: Searle's response to silicon brain?
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In article <40825@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
>What is it with the hatred of science expressed by so many of you AI types?
>There is no evidence to suggest that silicon digital neuron simulators can
>mimic real neurons or that mind is no more than than the product of
>some quantity of digital computation. One might as well ask whether 

Do you anti-AI types ever read each others' writings?  Searle has no 
argument at all against the possibility of simulating everything in the
brain-- he simply denies that such a contraption would be a mind.

As for "hatred of science," this is meaningless rhetoric.  AI researchers
are attempting to model what minds do, which is a nice scientific project.
(The distinction between modelling and creating minds has no practical
effect at this time.)
What is the experimental program of the anti-AI theorists?  What are their
specific predictions, confirmable by experiment, which will support their
theories and confound their adversaries?


