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From: ke@otter.hpl.hp.com (Kave Eshghi)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Chinese Room Newsgroup
Message-ID: <2070033@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 28 Jun 90 15:33:34 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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Some time ago, someone suggested creating a newsgroup dedicated
to discussing the Chinese Room problem. 

In the discussion that followed, this was taken as a rhetorical
suggestion, and not taken seriously.

Now, once again, comp.ai is flooded with Chinese Room articles.
Can someone please create a dedicated newsgroup for this
problem? This will create a suitable forum for the 
people who are interested in this philosophical problem, and
spare the rest of us the endlessly repeated arguments/counter-arguments.

Please do not take this message as a rhetorical one- I'm not suggesting
that the Chinese Room problem is not worthy of debate, I'm just saying
it generates enough interest that it should have a newgroup of its own.

Kave Eshghi