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Article 1594 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Chinese Room Variant
Keywords: ai philosophy searle expert system
Message-ID: <5694@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Nov 91 20:58:23 GMT
References: <1991Nov7.151439.3353@osceola.cs.ucf.edu> <1991Nov08.171238.37090@spss.com>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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In article <1991Nov08.171238.37090@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>1. These arguments often depend for their plausibility on extraneous factors--
>in this case, on renaming the integers with arbitrary signs.  

But using the standard signs obscures the point, that there's more
going on than those particular formal manipulations. 


