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Topic:
people vs. computers
Topic:
electromagnetic field
Topic:
metaphysics and epistemology
Topic:
the effect of scale
Topic:
intelligent machines

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Churchland, P.M., Churchland, P.S., "Could a machine think?", Scientific American, 262, January 1990, pp. 32-37. Google

Quotations
34 ;;Quote: Searle's third Chinese room axiom begs the question: syntax by itself is neither constitutive of nor sufficient for semantics
35 ;;Quote: compare Searle's Chinese room argument to an argument against light as electro-magnetism
35+;;Quote: just as waving a bar magnet doesn't generate visible light, small-scale symbol manipulation does not produce semantic phenomena
37 ;;Quote: the brain is a kind of computer; artificial intelligence is possible in a massively parallel machine

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