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Article #8871Re: Can Machines Think?
From: Ken Presting
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 00:50
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 00:50
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In article <6573@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) writes: >From article <898D02hl87rd01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, by kp@uts.amdahl.com (Ken Presting): >> ... But notice that if his questioner should >> ask Searle his name, or the time of day, or the color of his tie, he >> would *not* be able to answer correctly. ... > >Yes, he would: > > name?: (in Chinese) Hao Wang. > time?: (in Chinese) I'm not wearing my watch. > tie color?: (in Chinese) Green. I'm not sure what you have in mind. If the answers are false, Chinese interrogators will know Searle is faking. Searle may not know the difference between "Hao Wang" and "John Searle" (printed in Chinese characters), but the audience would. When I said "answer correctly" I meant "make a statement which is true", not just "make a statement that is meaningful Chinese, relevant to the topic of the question".
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!apple!amdahl!kp From: kp@uts.amdahl.com (Ken Presting) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Can Machines Think? Summary: Fixed answers to practical questions won't work Message-ID: <e58H02l087KM01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Date: 13 Feb 90 00:50:17 GMT References: <898D02hl87rd01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <6573@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Reply-To: kp@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Ken Presting) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 20