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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Free will and responsibility.
Summary: Therapy for Carbon-Based Neural Networks and Silicon-Based Machines
Keywords: Libertarianism, behaviorism , existentialism
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Date: 13 Jun 89 21:01:56 GMT
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In article <1385@lzfme.att.com> jwi@lzfme.att.com
(Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) writes:

 > My own experience has shown that accurate observational reports are
 > useful only if you (as therapist) are trained (and willing),
 > and the subject (patient) is also willing...

I agree.  Therapy must be by mutual consent.

 > It would be interesting to put an artificialintelligence into
 > abreactive crisis. I have no idea how this would be done, or even
 > what it would mean, given the state of the art -- but it would be
 > interesting.

I think there was a Star Trek episode in which Kirk gave the machine
it's "Goedel Sentence", and the machine, realizing the error of its
ways, turned itself off.

--Barry Kort