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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: Artificial Sentient Being
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> Following Jim Balter's suggestion, we will want to endow it with
> "multiband" sensory I/O. ...  The first goal will be to survive.  That
> means it must sense danger, and take measures to prevent its own
> demise.  The second goal will be to obtain as much sensory input as
> possible on all channels, and use that data to build a picture or model
> of the environment in which it is embedded.  The third goal will be to
> discover everything there is to discover, including the fact of its own
> existence, the mechanism of its own functioning, and the answer to the
> three Questions, "What Am I?  Who Created Me and Why? and "What Do I Do
> After I Have Answered the First Two Questions?"

After that, our next goal is to enlist Dr. Who to fight them off.

	"Halt, or you will be exterminated ... exterminated ..."
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Col. G. L. Sicherman
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