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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: What's the Chinese room problem?
Message-ID: <5062@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 89 08:52:15 GMT
References: <15594@bcsaic.UUCP>
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From article <15594@bcsaic.UUCP>, by rwojcik@bcsaic.UUCP (Rick Wojcik):
" 
" Dear A. Behaviorist,
"      Conceiving of speaking and listening without appealing to an internal
" stream of thoughts or concepts or cognitive structures or whatever is what is
" mysterious.  What do you think?  (Oops!  I meant "What do you say?"  Sorry.
" :-) 

As scientists we ought to be concerned with devising theories that
explain facts.  There is no theory which appeals to a stream of thoughts
which explains any fact of speaking or listening, so far as I
know.  Whether Rick can manage to conceive of speaking and listening
without such appeal is not a matter of any great scientific
interest.  So,
			B. A. Behaviorist