--- On Wed, 4/7/10, iro3isdx <wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The point here is that the Searle style of argument works > just as well for these examples. Describe the action of the > processor as symbol manipulation. And from that it seems quite > ridiculous that you could get music or video playing. It does not seem to me ridiculous that a machine can produce music or video from symbol manipulation, nor does it seem ridiculous that a computer can produce orderly output of any kind. We program them to do exactly that. -gts ========================================= Need Something? Check here: http://ludwig.squarespace.com/wittrslinks/