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From: harnad@mind.UUCP (Stevan Harnad)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: extended Turing test
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Date: Thu, 23-Oct-86 10:52:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 23 10:52:56 1986
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Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University
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Summary: Performance/Competence Distinctions


colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:

>	[I]t's misleading to propose that a veridical model of _our_ behavior
>	ought to have our "performance capacities"...I do not (yet) quarrel
>	with the principle that the model ought to have our abilities. But to
>	speak of "performance capacities" is to subtly distort the fundamental
>	problem. We are not performers!


"Behavioral ability"/"performance capacity" -- such fuss over
black-box synonyms, instead of facing the substantive problem of
modeling the functional substrate that will generate them.