frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (07/03/90)
Discussion on "The Chinese room" is a large chunk of the activity on comp.ai.
I have saved some of the most interesting articles, and the resulting
files are now something like 600K long.
Somebody suggested once the creation of a comp.ai.chinese-room newsgroup,
but it was probably never intended to be taken seriously. Nevertheless,
maybe it is not such a bad idea, but...
Would there be any interest in splitting off this discussion and
other related subjects of a more philosophical nature, the nature
of AI, whether AI is "possible", the philosophy behind the Turing
test etc ?
The name of the group might be comp.ai.philosophy or something like that.
If you have any opinions on the subject, please send me a reply. If the
number of those agreeing with the idea is larger than the number of those
not wanting a change, I will post a formal "call for discussion" followed by
a "call for votes", according to the guidelines.
-frisk
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