Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsl!davel
From: davel@cbnewsl.att.com (David Loewenstern)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Habeas Animum: a Human Interest point
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.191809.9330@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 27 Aug 90 19:18:09 GMT
References: <1990Aug24.185612.1@csc.fi>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ
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In article <1990Aug24.185612.1@csc.fi> ylikoski@csc.fi writes:
>I received some communications involving the Habeas Animum that I
>posted.  This entry is partially inspired by them.  I would like to
>communicate to the international audience of comp.ai some points
>involving the mentality of the persons who use the methods against
>which I proposed the Habeas Animum.

I had originally written a point-by-point discussion of this article,
but I think I'll just post the summary for the sake of brevity:

This article discusses evolution, the basis of the soul,
psychological experimentation by the KGB, and allegations of kidnapping,
but I don't see anything about AI.  What is it doing here?  Your 
allegations might belong in soc.human.rights or talk.politics.soviet
or perhaps a scientific ethics group, but not here.

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>Antti (Andy) Ylikoski              ! Internet: YLIKOSKI@CSC.FI
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>"Against some people, revenge is not a form of satisfaction --- it is
>a must."

Andy, if you have something to say about AI, please post it.
Informed speculations about the nature of human consciousness might
qualify, but allegations about the KGB really won't.