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From: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar)
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Subject: Re: Question on Chinese Room Argument
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Date: 7 Mar 89 15:23:52 GMT
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In article <Mar.6.00.44.38.1989.19921@elbereth.rutgers.edu>
harnad@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Stevan Harnad) writes:
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>In view of what you are prepared to believe about intergalactically
>distributed intelligence I am sure you will not be impressed to hear
>that to this lone terrestrial neuropsychologist it seems highly
>unlikely that memorizing a set of rules could give rise to two
>minds in the same brain: As far as I know, only Joe Bogen's knife
>has had such dramatic effects (in the "split-brain" patients -- and
>possibly also early traumatic child abuse in patients suffering
>from multiple personality syndome).
>
At least NOW we know what you are Stevan!  (In an earlier article, I
recall you vigorously denied being a philosopher, without saying WHAT
you were.  Here, I was getting ready to apply to duck test to they hypothesis
that you WERE a philosopher :-).)