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From: thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Question on Chinese Room Argument
Summary: more digressions into the real world
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Date: 25 Feb 89 23:33:16 GMT
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For what it matters:

	Stephen Mitchell is a noted translator who recently was interviewed on NPR
	about his new translation of the "TAO". The translation is beautiful and
	clear and Stephen Mitchell does not speak Chinese , his Master suggested that
	it wan't important and suggested that he just use a dictionary and follow his
	instincts for making sense. Granted he referred to previous works but for
	the most part he just looked for a good meaning and gave it good "context"
	e.g. bombs and money instead of swords and gold.Stephen Mitchell  definitely 
	needed a context , an experience of the world , which computers don't have 
	and more importantly don't need.

	The TAO that can be told
	is not the true TAO
	The God that can be named
	is not the true God
			-- TAO

			Thom Gillespie