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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: The Philosophical Foibles of John McCarthy
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Date: 25 Nov 91 19:28:04 GMT
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In article <MATT.91Nov24204114@physics.berkeley.edu> matt@physics.berkeley.edu writes:
>AI researchers, after all, are (crudely speaking) trying to design
>machines which simulate human thought.  The anti-AI philosophers,
>however, are arguing that even if a machine which simulates thought
>existed, it wouldn't *really* think.

Please don't characterize all AI researchers as doing that.
There's a lot of AI that is simply trying to get computers
to perform certain tasks without any attempt to simulate
what humans do.


