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Article #8501Re: Can Machines Think?
From: Matt Dejongh
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 18:50
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 18:50
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In article <6724@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant) writes:
>From article <31821@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, by dave@cogsci.indiana.edu
>(David Chalmers)...
>
>Slightly edited to make the bones barer:
>
> 1. Systems with an appropriate causal structure think.
>
>I take it that (1) is an acceptable definition. Does anybody think it
>begs the question?
I do. What is "an appropriate causal structure?" Give me a
definition and an example.
matt
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