Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
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From: ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu (The Sanj - ISman (iceman))
Subject: Re: The Chinese Room
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.185057.27920@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <7014@castle.ed.ac.uk> <s64421.657893870@zeus> <2405@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 90 18:50:57 GMT
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In article <2405@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
>
>aighb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Geoffrey Ballinger) writes:
>
>>	A few months ago there was a long running discussion on the
>>subject of Searle's Chinese Room problem. Has anybody out there
>>preserved the interesting articles from this thread? Thanks,
>
>I have a few 100's of kilobytes of the more interesting ones....
>
>-frisk

Yes, it was probably the longest running thread this group has ever seen.
Has anyone got a look at Steve Harnad's article (via ftp) called         
"Otherminds"? I haven't had time to read it all, but he says in the
beginning that Searle shows that using the Chinese room, it is possible
to pass the Turing test undetected.

Now it seemed that everyone had something to say against Searle. So I ask,
could Searle's thought experiment pass the Turing test?

Has anyone ever tried to do an experiment like this using actual people?


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