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From: sjb@piobe.austin.ibm.com (Scott J Brickner)
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Subject: Re: If it does not pass TT it is not intelligent????
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Date: 20 Jun 91 15:52:35 GMT
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In article <1643@ucl-cs.uucp>, G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:

> >> From:    me@csri.toronto.edu (Daniel R. Simon)
> >> A similar problem arises with regard to rocks, all of which (beyond
a certain
> >> size, at least) are in fact prodigiously intelligent, yet, because
of their
> >> extreme natural lethargy, invariably easily distinguishable from
humans in a
> >> "Turing Test" setting.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> "There *is* confusion worse than death"		Daniel R. Simon
> >> 			     -Tennyson		(me@theory.toronto.edu)
> 
> Indeed; there is an article in the latest New Scientist about the memory
> of sand.

I also am currently reading a book entitled "The Tao of Symbols" in
which the author describes (in the first chapter) the ongoing attempt of
a neighbor of his to teach a stone to talk.

Scott.