Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!Urd!newsuser From: newsuser@LTH.Se (LTH network news server) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Question on Chinese Room Argument Message-ID: <1989Mar13.110159.779@LTH.Se> Date: 13 Mar 89 10:01:58 GMT Reply-To: janeric@Control.LTH.Se (Jan Eric Larsson) Organization: Dept. of Automatic Control, Lund Inst. of Technology, Sweden Lines: 20 In article harnad@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Stevan Harnad) writes: >Searle's Argument has helped to show that pure symbol-crunching is not >the right road to the mind. In my JETAI paper I gave more reasons, and >in my book I try to show another road, a bottom-up one, in which >symbolic representations are grounded nonmodularly in nonsymbolic >representations. I for one think you haven't been able to actually show anything. But please go ahead and show by doing, and maybe the futile fight with words will eventually be decided by someone writing a program, building a robot, or something, and not just trying to prove that other people's approaches are wrong, and :-) failing to do so. -- Jan Eric Larsson JanEric@Control.LTH.Se +46 46 108795 Department of Automatic Control Lund Institute of Technology "We watched the thermocouples dance to the Box 118, S-221 00 LUND, Sweden spirited tunes of a high frequency band."