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From: wido@isgtec.uucp (Wido Menhardt)
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Subject: Re: Chinese Room Experiment: empirical tests
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Date: 25 Nov 90 14:37:26 GMT
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In article <7852@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
> I offer you a sinple empirical test 
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> Trust me, it's a very weird feeling, I've tried something very similar to
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
just what is it YOU tried ?

> this experiment a countless number of times.
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
so not even an INTEGER number ? this does not sound like experiments,
more like speculation ...

> I suspect that even without the aid of resources to tell you what means what,
    ^^^^^^^
right.

> you will converge onto a sudden understanding of the language, almost as if
> you were hit by a bolt out of the blue.

whow.

If this whole story is true, some other people will feel like hit by a bolt ..
myself, for instance.

I am looking forward to a reference to a (somewhat scientific) report/paper 
describing the experiments (including alphabet, language and ten book titles)
in detail.

If this confirms what you are saying, I am going to take the next three weeks
off;  buy ten titles of contemporary japanese literature plus paper
and pens (which is probably a wrong start already); and start writing
them; I always thought that language might be an asset, but never
thought to have the time for it.

-wido.