9.16    Searle's lecture is on what is pain, thursday, 2060 vlsb.
        \_ pain is reading the motd seriously.
        \_ I suggest watching Harvey's cs61a lectures on the web. If she's
           might help her learn to program.
                   \_ perl is a sucky beginners language, because there are
                      disgusting
           \_ no, pain is taking searle seriously.
        \_ Isn't Searle the guy who claims that computers can never
           be sentient?  I remember a section in Hofstader's book,
           _The_Mind's_Eye_, which talked about AI, the Turing Test,
           and other such subjects.  There was an argument attributed
           to Searle (maybe a different guy than the one giving the pain
           lecture) in there claiming that since computers only do
           "formal symbol manipulation" they can never be intelligent.
           I thought this argument was  pretty lame. -emin
           \_ yes, that's Searle, and yes, it is.  -tom
              \_ it's a fork bomb
           \_ the majority of searle's arguments sound impressive when he
              presents them on the bbc but are actually pretty damned lame.
        \_ Everything in here is wrong except the bits about
           "subjects", "formal", and "taking".