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The Jan. 1990 issue of Scientific American contains a pair of articles by
John Searle and Paul M. & Patricia Smith Churchland.  The articles address
the old AI debate: "Can computers think?"

Last summer I wrote a paper on "Intelligence and Computation" which explores
how we might build intelligent computers in practice as well as in theory.
A number of issues in the Sci American articles are explored with reference
to books such as "The Mind's I", "Mind Design", and especially "The Artificial
Intelligence Debate" (previously released as a Daedalus special issue on AI).

If you are interested in this subject, drop me some e-mail and I'll send
the paper in troff format.  It is 13 pages long (double-spaced).
I would be very open to reader feedback regarding both the plausibility and
soundness of the paper's arguments.

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