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From: osborn@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au (An Approxamaton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Chinese Room Experiment: empirical tests
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Date: 17 Dec 90 05:32:50 GMT
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miller@b17a.INGR.COM (David S. Miller) writes:

> Symbols that don't stand for anything aren't symbols at all!

OK... ...what do you mean by anything? And how does the
something (proto-symbol) come to stand for it? Maybe the
something also stands for "something" when it doesn't 
standing for anything else? I wonder what!

Tomasso.
-- 
Tom Osborn,                        "Integrity is not enough...
School of Computing Sciences,          ...you need pepper and salt, too."
University of Technology, Sydney,
PO Box 123 Broadway 2007,  AUSTRALIA.                      Gregory Peck.