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>From: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Subject: Re: A rock implements every FSA
In-Reply-To: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu's message of 30 Mar 92 13: 41:27 GMT
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zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

   In article <OZ.92Mar29232211@ursa.sis.yorku.ca> 
   oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:

   >Mikhail Zeleny writes [in response to David Chalmers]:

   MZ:
   >   It's too bad you set a lower standard of excellence for Internet banter
   >   than you do for formal expression. To my uneducated mind, it appears as a
   >   regrettable lack of commitment to your stated views.

   OY:
   >It is indeed unfortunate that despite these high-brow mumblings, you
   >yourself have been strangely unable to elevate your own internet banter
   >to anything more substential, say an article in a respectable journal.
   >Alas, for the time being, the last four months of zelenyana [toxic and
   >non-toxic variety] must remain within the confines of news spool
   >directories, miscellaneous archives and usenet CD-ROM.

   At the moment, I don't publish anything I write.

In other words, you feel free to write anything you like on internet,
however obnoxious or ill-informed, and when it comes down to commitment
to those writings, "I don't publish anything I write". How convenient.
In amusing contrast, the target of your challenge has actually published
a considerable amount of his material [1], thereby allowing critical
examination of his views.
					     ... However, the substance of
   many of my articles in these newsgroups is contained in my lengthy opus on
   semantics, which exists in a draft version, and is available to anyone who
   asks for it, both for reading and citing.

Ah, there are just too many unpublished/unpublishable draft opuses
around, and yours is just one more in the proverbial pot. When and if
this "opus" of yours makes it (say) to the pages of a reviewed journal,
let this newsgroup know. Until then, do enjoy your internet playpan,
where the cure for *flatus vocis* is a keyclick away.

   OY:
   >Are you willing to publish your vitriolic internet tirades on Dennett?
   >I doubt it.

   Their gist is all there, mostly in the footnotes.

Translation: "I excluded all the attacks on Dennett's character
	      so that my work will not be the laughing stock of
	      every philosophy student in this continent"

bosh.

oz
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[1] Chalmers, D.J. 1992.  Subsymbolic computation and the Chinese Room.
    In (Dinsmore, ed) _The Symbolic and Connectionist Paradigms: Closing
    the Gap_. Erlbaum.

    Chalmers, D.J. 1990.  Syntactic transformations on distributed
    representations. Connection Science 2:53-62.

    Chalmers, D.J. 1990.  Why Fodor and Pylyshyn were wrong: The simplest
    refutation.  Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society 12:340-7.

    Chalmers, D.J., French, R.M. & Hofstadter, D.R. 1992.  High-level
    perception, representation, and analogy: A critique of AI methodology.
    Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.

    Chalmers, D.J. 1990. The Evolution of Learning: An Experiment in
    Genetic Connectionism. Connectionist Models: Proceedings of the
    1990 Summer School Workshop, pp. 81-90.

    etc.



