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>From: daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough)
Subject: Re: Human intelligence vs. Machine intelligence
Message-ID: <1992Nov1.144220.21708@oracorp.com>
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Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 14:42:20 GMT
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frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams) writes:

>>`Diagonalizing `Diagonalizing this sentence produces a string of words
>>that will never be believed by David Chalmers.' produces a string of words
>>that will never be believed by David Chalmers.'
>>
>>Now what exactly does G say?
>
>You can't talk about what G *says* if you are only considering it as a
>string of words.  You are explicitly talking about what it as a statement,
>about it what it refers to, when you do this.

G is a string of words which we *interpret* as a statement. The
question is, how do we interpret G? Its meaning is pretty clear,
it seems to me.

Daryl McCullough
ORA Corp.
Ithaca, NY

 


