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>From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: The Chinese Room (or Number Five's Alive)
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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 16:47:25 GMT
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In article <1992Apr5.210553.11966@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>In article <6737@pkmab.se> ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) writes:
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>>Surely, no-one has suggested that SHRDLU is advanced enough to have a mind?
>>
>Under strong AI, one would be committed to such a view. 

This is an absurd claim.  Strong AI claims that minds can be created by
implementing an appropriate program.  It does not claim that minds are
created by implementing *any* program.  (Maybe some people think that,
but it is not a consequence of Strong AI.)


