Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!edcogsci!cogsci!ht From: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Chinese room -- Empirical tests Message-ID: Date: 28 Nov 90 10:08:35 GMT Sender: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh Lines: 15 In a talk here some weeks ago, Steven Harnad suggested some gedanken experiments related to the 'learning by imitation' examples we've been discussing: 1) Could you learn Chinese (or any other natural language) as a second language using ONLY a monolingual Chinese (or ...) dictionary? 2) How about as a first language? I'll post Harnad's answers, with which I agree, tomorrow. -- Henry Thompson, Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 31 667-1011 x6517 Fax: (44) 31 662-4912 ARPA: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk JANET: ht@uk.ac.ed.cogsci UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!cogsci!ht