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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Ken Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.ai,net.cog-eng,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: re: Computer Dialogue #1
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 11:31:15 EST
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>Some people actually have some level of understanding of computers and
>similar horrible scientific doodads.  Some people realize that computers
>don't feel emotions any more than toasters do ... 

Maybe not, but this only applies to present-day computers.  "Some people
realize that brain cells don't feel emotions any more than toasters do"...
doesn't mean that a combination of many brain cells cannot, and the same
could apply to future computers with many times the capability of today's
computers.
-- 
"We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to
socialism, because socialism is defunct.  It dies all by iself.  The bad thing
is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?" -Fidel Castro

Kenneth Arromdee
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