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From: mmt@client1.DRETOR.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: chinese room/constructed intelligence
Keywords: chinese room and babylonian buerocracy
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Date: 15 Jan 90 21:35:17 GMT
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Reply-To: mmt@client1.dciem.dnd.ca (Martin Taylor)
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:There is a book of Stanislav Lem, called *The Invincible* if I remember right.
:It deals with the problem of the starschip The Invincible, which discovers
:a planet, which is inhabitatated by Mechanical Flys. Each Fly is not
:intelligent by itself, but same of them together are, and in thousands, they
:are dangerous and deadly.
:
:greetings, Micha
:--
:------ now with improved, biodynamic .signature --------------------
:! Nickname: michel                     UUCP: schwuchow@uniol.UUCP  !
:! Realname: Michael Schwuchow                                      !
:! Position: Oldenburg, FRG             EARN: 122685@DOLUNI1        !
:------Lieber ein Universaldilettant, als ein Fachidiot--------------

Or read "Army Ants: A Collective Intelligence" by Nigel R. Franks,
American Scientist, 77, March-April 1989, 139-145.
-- 
Martin Taylor (mmt@zorac.dciem.dnd.ca ...!uunet!dciem!mmt) (416) 635-2048
If the universe transcends formal methods, it might be interesting.
     (Steven Ryan).