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From: cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Chinese Rooms and slippery concepts
Message-ID: <1840@aipna.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Jan 90 20:32:41 GMT
References: <33668@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Organization: Dept of AI, Edinburgh University, UK.
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In article <33668@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> vanroy@bellatrix.uucp () writes:

>  I've been following the Searle -- Chinese room argument on comp.ai
>with some interest.  But I'm puzzled by all the vagueness.
                              ^^^^^^^            ^^^^^^^^^
 ...

>Why introduce slippery concepts like "mind" and
>"understands"?

Ok. You rephrase your objection without introducing slippery concepts
like "puzzled" and "vagueness", and I'll see what I can do.
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Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aipna   031 667 1011 x2550
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK