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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: Searle (was Re: Daniel Dennett (was Re: Commenting on the posting))
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Date: 25 Nov 91 18:59:55 GMT
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In article <YAMAUCHI.91Nov24022756@magenta.cs.rochester.edu> yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes:
>
>He does admit that humans are machines, but he never says what it is
>about humans that gives them the "semantics" that other machines
>"lack".

He doesn't know, but then neither does anyone else.  Hence that
somewhat unsatisfying talk of "the causal powers of the brain".

>  From reading his essays, I received the distinct impression
>that he believes this has something to do with the specific chemical
>composition of the human brain...

Not that specific.  See his use of "green slime".


