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Subject: Re: The Chess Room Argument [by John R. Searle]

Author: Jay Scott

Date: 12:59:13 03/15/01

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Searle is still stuck on that old consciousness gig. John Searle does not buy
Minsky's claim that "minds are what brains do". I think the interesting thing
about his Chinese Room argument is how confused people get when trying to answer
it. He has found an excellent way to get people's minds snarled up.

Here is my answer, substituting the word "intelligence" where Searle
rhetorically uses "consciousness", as if he knew what it meant:

http://satirist.org/swapa/chinese.html

  Jay



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