Xref: utzoo comp.ai:5256 talk.philosophy.misc:3341 sci.philosophy.tech:1804 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!peirce.cis.ohio-state.edu!dejongh From: dejongh@peirce.cis.ohio-state.edu (Matt Dejongh) Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc,sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Re: Can Machines Think? Message-ID: <75078@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 20 Dec 89 18:50:19 GMT References: <31821@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <6724@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Matt Dejongh Followup-To: comp.ai Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 28 In article <6724@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant) writes: >From article <31821@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, by dave@cogsci.indiana.edu >(David Chalmers)... > >Slightly edited to make the bones barer: > > 1. Systems with an appropriate causal structure think. > >I take it that (1) is an acceptable definition. Does anybody think it >begs the question? I do. What is "an appropriate causal structure?" Give me a definition and an example. matt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt DeJongh | Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research | Department of Computer and Information Sciences dejongh@cis.ohio-state.edu | The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 -=- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt DeJongh | Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research | Department of Computer and Information Sciences dejongh@cis.ohio-state.edu | The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210