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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: Searle and the Rumpus Room
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"WWF n Proof": I like that. By placing a human being (with real human
intelligence) inside the Chinese Room, Searle is begging the question.

Her ignorance of Chinese is simply a minor drawback, give the
"plasticity of the mind".

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