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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: If it does not pass TT it is not intelligent????
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Date: 19 Jun 91 15:09:42 GMT
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>> 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.
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