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From: dan-hankins@cup.portal.com (Daniel B Hankins)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Question on Chinese Room Argument
Message-ID: <17190@cup.portal.com>
Date: 15 Apr 89 04:09:57 GMT
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In article <275@acates.UUCP> dan@acates.UUCP (Dan Ford) writes:

>Perhaps the fact that a couple of the listed outputs (robot arms and
>mobility) are part of feedback systems, and thus also act as inputs, is
>what leads to the above statement.  "Pure" outputs are needed to recognize
>sentience, not to achieve it.

     This is what I had in mind.  In order to achieve sentience, I feel
(but am not convinced) that an entity needs to have rich interactions with
its environment, for feedback purposes.

     And of course we need some kind of output in order to recognize the
achieved sentience.


Dan Hankins