--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jrstern" <jrstern@...> wrote: > My point, should I have one, is that I rather favor the Searle view, > that intentionality is really something beyond an attribution. And I actually agree with that. The problem with Searle's argument was that, in effect, he said that even if your AI system gets all of the behavior right, it won't have intentionality so won't be "strong AI." In my opinion he should have said "your AI system won't succeed in getting the behavior right because it won't have intentionality." > In fact, it only now occurs to me, that Searle does offer his own > purely attributional story in his Wordstar parable. He makes it > out to be absurd, does he not? For sure, his "Wordstar system" in his wall does not get the behavior right. Regards, Neil ========================================= Need Something? Check here: http://ludwig.squarespace.com/wittrslinks/