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- From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
- Subject: Re: Minds, Computers and Searle
- Message-ID: <8226@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:34:06 GMT
- References: <C0rC7C.K64@cs.bham.ac.uk> <1993Jan14.172034.188@psych.toronto.edu> <1993Jan16.101540.1225@skynet.uucp>
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- In article <1993Jan16.101540.1225@skynet.uucp> ice@skynet.uucp (Ice) writes:
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- >Searle is whining like a spoilt child by pointing out that a computational
- >metaphor for mind is "wrong," without offering a realistic alternative.
-
- You don't think it's useful to point out a mistake, even if you can't
- offer a solution?
-
- >A comment on the sociology of science: It's amazing how much this guy
- >gets the limelight while contributing little to foundational issues in
- >AI by sidetracking us with semantic head games.
-
- I'm amazed that people working in AI spend so much time on these
- issues when they're relevant to only a very small part of AI.
- Even in Cog Sci most (I think) of what people do would still be
- worth doing even if Searle were right.
-
- Anyone who doesn't want to be "sidetracked" should be able to
- avoid the whole debate almost all of the time. Of course,
- people who read an ai.phil newsgroup tend to be interested
- in these issues and don't want to avoid it (except when it
- just cycles through the same old arguments).
-