Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!latcs1!jane From: jane@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Jane Philcox) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea Message-ID: <1991May17.061004.4406@latcs2.lat.oz.au> Date: 17 May 91 06:10:04 GMT Article-I.D.: latcs2.1991May17.061004.4406 References: <1563@ucl-cs.uucp> Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Lines: 14 In article <1563@ucl-cs.uucp> G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes: >steven furber writes: >The topic of the strangeness of extraterrestrias "thought" is covered >in "The Mote in God's" - authored Larry Nevin and somebody else (not >sure of the names here at all). "The Mote in God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Very good book, if a little slow moving at times. Regards, Jane. -- A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.