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From: dsa@dlogics.COM (David Angulo)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Hayes vs. Searle
Summary: Searle DID mean a list of answers
Message-ID: <589@dlogics.COM>
Date: 14 Jun 90 22:13:06 GMT
References: <16875@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <2629@skye.ed.ac.uk> <2752@skye.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <2752@skye.ed.ac.uk>, jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
> In article <586@dlogics.COM> dsa@dlogics.COM (David Angulo) writes:
> >No, a program couldn't be printed (if by program you mean a list of
> >questions and their answers) because such a book or program is always
> >incomplete.
> 
> By "program" I do not mean a list of questions and their answers
> and neither does Searle.
> 

But that's DEFINATELY the spirit of Searle's argument.  Otherwise, he
needs to have a memory to serve as a database.  With THIS you WOULD say
that the "room understands."  He had no such concept of memory: just
Searle and the book.







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