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Article #8477Re: Can humans "understand" mathematics
From: Brian Yamauchi
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1989 23:28
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1989 23:28
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In article <20778@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> ladkin@icsib (Peter Ladkin) writes: >In article <130200002@peg>, ggast@peg writes: >> I agree entirely that Searle is missing something.Everyone who has >> learnt a foreign language will know immediately what I mean. > >i'm quite sure that searle is aware of most of these obvious points, and >has answered them. it seems appropriate, before deciding what potential >weaknesses his arguments have, to ask him about them. He replies to many of them in an article in Mind Design (edited by Haugeland). The article is worth reading if you're interested in the Chinese Room debate, but I think a couple of his replies completely miss the point -- in particular his reply to the robot reply and his reply to the systems reply. _______________________________________________________________________________ Brian Yamauchi University of Rochester yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu Computer Science Department _______________________________________________________________________________
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!rochester!yamauchi From: yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Can humans "understand" mathematics Message-ID: <1989Dec17.232827.10440@cs.rochester.edu> Date: 17 Dec 89 23:28:27 GMT References: <3120@uceng.uc.edu> <130200002@peg> <20778@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi) Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department Lines: 20