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From: dailey@galaxy.cps.msu.edu (Chris Dailey)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: computer life?
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.144332.9415@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 91 14:43:32 GMT
References: <1991Mar3.025707.16737@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <12565@ur-cc.UUCP> <1991Mar4.143106.8838@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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Here I point out to you two fatalities of my tendency to overedit messages.
Unfortunately, the first one caused the point I was making to not be
properly supported, so therefore I am pointing these out:

In article <1991Mar4.143106.8838@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> I wrote:
>Remember some of my questions on the definitions of life and
>intelligence?  For intelligence one of the questions I asked was about
>whether a plant that moves to tilt toward the sun during the day has
>intelligence.  I am not sure, because I do not know how and why a plant
>does this.  I would definitely say the plant shows intelligence, but I
>do not know if it actually HAS intelligence.  [These two concepts are
>not mutually exclusive in my mind.]

I meant to say that one does not necessarily imply the other, not that
they are not mutually exclusive.  (Although I do also believe they are
not mutually exclusive, but that lends no support to the point I was
trying to make.)

>I would say that today's genre chess program is no more intelligent
>than Eliza.

Should say, "...genre of chess programs is ...".

Sorry about that.
-- 
Chris Dailey   dailey@(frith.egr|cps).msu.edu
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