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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: computer life?
Keywords: Survival, instincts
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.150208.27855@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 15:02:08 GMT
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In article <1991Feb27.134800.18153@news.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes:
>   Granted, this is a good point.  But manmade systems (like computers)
>are not evolved, but designed.

 But the design has evolved (from the results of experience with prior designs).

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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