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00100		In trying to refute the "Berkeley answer", John Searle
00200	imagines a man carrying out in his head a program for conducting
00300	a dialog in Chinese and notes that the man carrying out the
00400	program might understand no Chinese.  He concludes from this
00500	that understanding is not a property of programs.
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00700		Here two processes are using the same hardware.  It is like
00800	Stevenson's %2Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde%1 except that Dr. Jekyll is
00900	interpreting Mr. Hyde rather than time-sharing with him.  Were either
01000	phenomenon common, we would not identify a human personality with the
01100	human body just as we don't identify a computer program with the computer
01200	itself.  Once we distinguish the two processes taking place in the same
01300	brain, the Berkeley answer that the interpreted process understands
01400	Chinese remains tenable.
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