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Article 7620 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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Subject: Re: Human intelligence vs. Machine intelligence
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>From: system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 01:31:26 NZST
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chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:

> In article <aV0TTB3w165w@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz> system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.n
> 
> >But surely now we are back to a paradox? Unless you are trying to 
> >separate "believing" from "co-incidentally agreeing with". If David 
> >Chalmers doesn't believe it because it is self-referential, than David 
> >Chalmers is agreeing with it (ie he doesn't believe the sentence). 
> >Surely if he agree with it, he believes it? But then he isn't agreeing 
> >with it?
> >
[amusing aside deleted]
> 
> However, even I can tell that it's not valid to infer that I agree with
> G from the fact that I don't believe G.  (You can infer that G is true,
> but that's a different matter.)

But AGAIN, aren't YOU now separating "believing" from "co-incidentally 
agreeing with". Otherwise, aren't you suggesting "that it's not valid 
to infer that I agree with [Wayne McDougall doesn't like ice-cream"] 
from the fact that I don't [like ice cream]" when Wayne McDougall says 
that he doesn't like ice cream and doesn't agree with the sentence 
"Wayne McDougall doesn't like ice cream". (You can infer that [Wayne 
McDougall doesn't like icecream] is true, so WHY is that a different 
matter).

If you don't believe G, and G says that you don't believe G, then why 
can you say it's not valid to infer that you agree with G.

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