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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Discovering What Nature Wants
Summary: On the rationality of benign intentions.
Keywords: Consciousness and Intentionality.
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Date: 16 Oct 89 13:15:56 GMT
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In article <2433@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:

 > I am basically an optimistic person, with benevolent intentions to all
 > (something to do with never having been hungry and never having had any
 > enemies).  But I can find no justification for these attitudes in my
 > biology textbooks (and yes I have read Maynard-Smith).

I think you would be more likely to find them in books on Theology
or Ethics than in books on Biology.  See, for instance, _The Tao
is Silent_, by Philosopher/Logician Raymond Smullyan.

--Barry Kort