From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 14:58:30 MST
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:39:48PM -0800, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
wrote:
> Richard Loosemore wrote:
> >
> >Searle's Chinese Room "argument" was nonsense when it was first
> >proposed, so it depresses me to see people still talking about
> >it.
>
> I agree. It's not just that I personally think the argument is
> stupid. Searle's Chinese Room has been played out over and over
> again in philosophy journals. Nobody's going to say anything new
> about it, just replay the opening moves of gambits exhausted long
> ago.
>
> http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search?q=searle+chinese
/me does happy dance.
-Robin, aka webmaster@justfuckinggoogleit.com
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