Re: Dualism

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From: Bill Skaggs
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:07

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jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:

   > Why is it then that when I suggest that functional organization  
   > (or, more generally, "how it works") should count, no one on the
   > anti-Searle side says they agree?

The distinction is between "It thinks" and "It thinks like a human".
I can't imagine anything passing the Turing Test that I wouldn't give
credit for thinking, regardless of its functional organization.  On
the other hand, I wouldn't say "It thinks like a human" unless it had
the same functional organization as a human, even if it were
behaviorally indistinguishable.

	-- Bill

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