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From: andrew@dtg.nsc.com (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head       )
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The Chinese Room and the Babylonian Bureaucracy
Summary: syntax => semantics
Message-ID: <139@daedalus.nsc.com>
Date: 9 Jan 90 22:46:51 GMT
References: <1990Jan9.060511.9121@mentor.com>
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
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How can Searle assert that syntax in and of itself cannot give rise to
semantics? An existence proof for the contradiction is there for all to see
in (at least) every mentally normal human child. Isn't it really this
simple?
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