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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Searle, Strong AI, and Chinese Rooms
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Date: 17 Nov 90 17:02:36 GMT
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Why Chinese? Is this is a Red Herring (or racism)? Why not French,
Serbo-Croat or Swedish?  The fact that Chinese use pictograms rather
than letters is irrelevant to the arguments.

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