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From: dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Building a brain
Summary: Tired Old Legends
Message-ID: <2628@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 29 Oct 89 19:52:42 GMT
References: <14079@well.UUCP> <10175@venera.isi.edu> <246@carmine9.UUCP> <2569@munnari.oz.au>
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Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati, College of Engg.
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In article <2569@munnari.oz.au>, ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
> In article <659@visdc.UUCP>, jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III) writes:
> > Contact with vastly superior cultures, take
> > for instance the landing of Cortez in Mexico, has always had the effect
> > of destroying certain central societal myths held by the inferior
> > culture.
> 
> This is a tired old legend.  It happens not to be true.

And what vastly superior culture have you contacted, that you have
determined the above central societal myth to be in fact a tired old
legend?

:-)

Dan Mocsny
dmocsny@uceng.uc.edu