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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea
Message-ID: <1991May15.003627.23521@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 15 May 91 00:36:27 GMT
References: <1991May13.133711.102@athena.mit.edu> <2200@seti.inria.fr>
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In article <2200@seti.inria.fr> ziane@nuri.inria.fr (ziane mikal @) writes:
>I have the same objection towards Searle's Chinese room argument.
>...
>It is even possible that the necessary computations are so complex
>that they make the guy in the room learn Chinese !

 Glad to see someone else say this.  I believe it is the crux of the
matter.


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