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From: kmcentee@Apple.COM (Kevin McEntee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Searle again
Message-ID: <37764@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 90 17:43:47 GMT
References: <1953@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>
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In article <1953@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> utility@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Ronald BODKIN) writes:
>(More on the Chinese Room)
>So in some sense, the claim
>that Searle doesn't understand is partly a manifestation of our OWN
>inability to imagine a person operating like a computer and understanding.
>			Ron

I have to agree here.  I only hope that AI research does not limit itself
by only recognizing intelligent artifacts that are analogous to presently
accepted biological brains.  This criterion of intelligence, by analogic
behavior, might close our eyes to a radical discovery of machine intelligence.

Kevin
kmcentee@apple.com