Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!blenko-tom From: blenko-tom@cs.yale.edu (Tom Blenko) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: Searle's Chinese Room Message-ID: <27270@cs.yale.edu> Date: 14 Nov 90 17:06:32 GMT References: <10297@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <3488@aipna.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 12 Nntp-Posting-Host: morphism.systemsz.cs.yale.edu Originator: blenko@morphism.CS.Yale.Edu In article <3488@aipna.ed.ac.uk> cam@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes: | |If you want to know what Searle thought don't read this newsgroup! Read |Searle! He's not as stupid as most of those who disagree with him :-) Well said. I have for some time regarded Searle's original article as an intelligence test for the AI community (it is even more entertaining to suppose that that was its intent). Not because there's any a priori reason it should serve as such, it just it seems to work pretty well that way. Tom