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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Question on Chinese Room Argument
Message-ID: <3564@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 89 19:05:11 GMT
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From article <16186@cup.portal.com>, by dan-hankins@cup.portal.com (Daniel B Hankins):
 
" ...  A computer is _not_ a device that does symbol crunching.  Only minds
" can do this, as symbols are wholly in the domain of the mental. ...

When I compile a program, assembly language with symbols is produced,
and the symbols are interpreted (dare I say 'understood'?) by an
assembler.  Has my computer gone mental?  Am I misusing the
term 'symbol'?  Or are you.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu