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From: doug@eris.berkeley.edu (Doug Merritt)
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Subject: Re: Simulated Vision Article Search
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Date: 29 Apr 91 02:19:50 GMT
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In article <5677@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
>  Last word.  When Brindley did the experiment in the late 60s Warren
>McCulloch told me that if I wanted to do something like it, it must be
>done quickly because in later years it would become ethically and
>politically impossible.  I thought he was being depressed or
>something, but evidently he was just correctly predicting that trend.

For that matter, if you want to do such an experiment with chimpanzees
or any other animal, perhaps you'd better do it quick, given the current
pressures to outlaw animal experimentation! (I devoutly hope that this
is not the trend of the future, but cynicism sometimes makes me think
that it is.)

Hmm, is Karl Pribram having such difficulties?
	Doug
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