Patty <pattyNO@SPAMicyberspace.net> wrote in message news:<vX9Vb.237514$I06.2670356@attbi_s01>...
David Longley wrote:
In article <%BRUb.187327$5V2.969688@attbi_s53>, Patty
pattyNO@SPAMicyberspace.net> writes
David Longley wrote:
What the Turing Test and others like it do is simply show how people
make folk psychological attributions, (an intensional modus vivendi).
This is also referred to (by Dennett) as "The Intentional Stance".
Words like knowing, believing, understanding etc along with our
psychological vernacular is mentalistic and dramatic or attributive.
Once you believe you can rationally infer within such contexts you
are prone to all sorts of trouble - and that's because the basis for
*rational* inference breaks down in intensional contexts (for
reasons I have covered many times before elsewhere). Failure to
appreciate this is why all such talk never caches out into behaviour
(or the extensional stance) and why it just goes round in
intensional circles (limited only perhaps by the scope of one's
'memory' <g>)..There's an uneasy tension here, elsewhere called "the
double standard" or "anomalous monism".
Except ... daa ... why would anyone in their right mind try to "infer
into intensional contexts" when we are pretty much taught not to do
that now in grad school. Then too, "talk" never does "caches into
behavior" on c.a.p ... am surprised that u might expect that it
would. Outside of that .. what you say makes some kind of sense but ...
What the Turing Test really does is just tell us that humans define
what it means to act like a human. I think skewing our thinking to
your view is just silly.
Patty
Regardless of what you're taught in "grad school", how about.. because,
*you*, like most folk are *not* (a lot of the time) "in [your] right
mind", and you *don't* (again like most folk) do what you are told?
Well i dont infer into intensional contexts ... i mean i
might infer in them but i wouldnt expect it to hold water.
As to the rest of your implications ... ill just take them
as compliments ... thanks
...
Or are you just playing "Valley Girl" again?
... and none of my friends do either.
Patty
Pillars of mouths,
soft and fruity,
laughing with love and desire,
deliciously.
???
Jean Luke Pisock (George)
