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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Bag the Turing test (was: Penrose and Searle)
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In article <jqbD02pHI.EF5@netcom.com> jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter) writes:

>Everything I know about you and almost else on the net has been obtained
>solely by examining your texts.

Textual evidence is important, but not the whole story.  From what you
write, and from what I know about computers and AI and the liklihood
of aliens or dogs posting net articles, I conclude that you're a
human.  And then there are many things I know about humans, and hence
about you, that were not obtained by examining your texts.

-- jd
