[comp.ai.philosophy] The Chinese Room

aighb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Geoffrey Ballinger) (11/05/90)

	A few months ago there was a long running discussion on the
subject of Searle's Chinese Room problem. Has anybody out there
preserved the interesting articles from this thread? Thanks,

							Geoff.
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s64421@zeus.usq.EDU.AU (house ron) (11/06/90)

aighb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Geoffrey Ballinger) writes:

>	A few months ago there was a long running discussion on the
>subject of Searle's Chinese Room problem. Has anybody out there
>preserved the interesting articles from this thread? Thanks,

C'mon, someone, repost 'em all!        :-)
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frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (11/13/90)

aighb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Geoffrey Ballinger) writes:

>	A few months ago there was a long running discussion on the
>subject of Searle's Chinese Room problem. Has anybody out there
>preserved the interesting articles from this thread? Thanks,

I have a few 100's of kilobytes of the more interesting ones....

-frisk

theo@cs.fau.edu (Theo Heavey) (11/14/90)

frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:

> 
> aighb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Geoffrey Ballinger) writes:
> 
> >	A few months ago there was a long running discussion on the
> >subject of Searle's Chinese Room problem. Has anybody out there
> >preserved the interesting articles from this thread? Thanks,
> 
> I have a few 100's of kilobytes of the more interesting ones....
> 
> -frisk

I would be interested in finding this information as well. Is there
anyway to post to an anon ftp site?

theo

ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu (The Sanj - ISman (iceman)) (11/16/90)

In article <2405@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
>
>aighb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Geoffrey Ballinger) writes:
>
>>	A few months ago there was a long running discussion on the
>>subject of Searle's Chinese Room problem. Has anybody out there
>>preserved the interesting articles from this thread? Thanks,
>
>I have a few 100's of kilobytes of the more interesting ones....
>
>-frisk

Yes, it was probably the longest running thread this group has ever seen.
Has anyone got a look at Steve Harnad's article (via ftp) called         
"Otherminds"? I haven't had time to read it all, but he says in the
beginning that Searle shows that using the Chinese room, it is possible
to pass the Turing test undetected.

Now it seemed that everyone had something to say against Searle. So I ask,
could Searle's thought experiment pass the Turing test?

Has anyone ever tried to do an experiment like this using actual people?


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timm@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Tim Menzies) (11/18/90)

In article <s64421.657893870@zeus> s64421@zeus.usq.EDU.AU (house ron) writes:
>aighb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Geoffrey Ballinger) writes:
>
>>	A few months ago there was a long running discussion on the
>>subject of Searle's Chinese Room problem. Has anybody out there
>>preserved the interesting articles from this thread? Thanks,
>
>C'mon, someone, repost 'em all!        :-)

No, no, no. An  end to the Chinese room please. Either that, or  can we
have a  seperate news group for  it???  

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