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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Question on Chinese Room Argument
Message-ID: <224@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Feb 89 21:45:21 GMT
References: <4298@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <Feb.18.17.26.17.1989.23438@elbereth.rutgers.edu> <51157@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <Feb.20.21.17.37.1989.16495@elbereth.rutgers.edu> <573@aipna.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <573@aipna.ed.ac.uk> rjc@uk.ac.ed.aipna (Richard Caley) writes:
>(b) is, surely, a straw man. It is the homoculous argument again. Nobody
>is claiming there is "something else" in the room which understands
>chinese.

Nope.  Imagine that some part of Searle's brain is running the Searle
program and another part is running the Chinese Room program.  No
infinite regress, just time sharing.