An oddly incomplete article is over at the Tenerife News Online. Despite its revealing title of An Interview with Professor Searle - MICHAEL - IN NEED AN INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH - WHO DID THE INTERVIEW ETC , Searle provides some interesting commentary on the first expedition of the RSS James Cook..
The drill could produce some good samples of mantle rock, but as I said the sediment cover in many places was thicker than we expected. We are therefore thinking about writing a proposal for funding to bring a larger drill here to penetrate deeper. But don't worry, the mantle substance at the bottom of the sea is a type of rock, too. So... no dramatic effects there...The water in the Atlantic is not going to drain out!"
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There's a pretty interesting interview with the philosopher John Searle in the Boston Globe:
The Chinese Room is a thought experiment in artificial intelligence. John Searle proposed it as a way to falsify the claim that some computer algorithm could be written which could mimic the behavior of an intelligent human so precisely that we could call it an artificial intelligence.
The Triangle Malaria Symposium will be on Thursday, November 15, 2007, at 1-7 pm at the Duke University Searle Center.
Whew, what a relief! I was worried for a moment there.
and I was hoping that here was a way we could offset rising sea levels...darn it, now we'll have to keep those pesky glaciers frozen.