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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Question on Chinese Room Argument
Summary: "Soul of the Mark III Beast" and "The Soul of Martha, a Beast"
Keywords: Soul food for thought.
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Date: 21 Feb 89 22:38:38 GMT
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In article <4307@cs.Buffalo.EDU> sher@wolf.UUCP (David Sher) writes:

 > Does anyone believe that they can build a machine with a soul?  

Readers who are intrigued by this question may enjoy reading the
two short pieces by Terrel Miedaner in _The Mind's I_ (Hofstadter
and Dennett, 1981).

--Barry Kort

"Artificial Sentient Beings by the End of the Millenium!"