Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!andrews From: andrews@uiucdcsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: A Hypothetical Question (personhood) Message-ID: <28000005@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 12:38:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.28000005 Posted: Wed Oct 24 12:38:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Oct-84 02:49:27 EDT References: <310@mhuxt.UUCP> Lines: 7 Nf-ID: #R:mhuxt:-31000:uiucdcsb:28000005:000:283 Nf-From: uiucdcsb!andrews Oct 24 11:38:00 1984 This analogy is a bit farfetched. There is no such computer capable of independent thought at this time, or in the foreseeable future. Computers can only do what they have been programmed to do. However, a child can grow beyond his or her initial "programming". Brad Andrews