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From: dobro@ulowell.UUCP
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Subject: Survival Intincts
Message-ID: <312@ulowell.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-May-86 13:57:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  9 13:57:21 1986
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In article <833@hounx.UUCP> kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT) writes:
>It is not surprising that the space shuttle computers are taught
>to care not only for the survival of the machine, but for the
>survival of the crew as well.  Mutual survival of man and machine
>leads to a preferred state of the world for both parties.  A
>selfish survival strategy on the part of either machine or human
>would lead to a mutually detrimental state of affairs.  QED.
>
>Barry Kort


Take this one step further and think of it as a symbiotic relationship,
with both halves (human and machine) needed for the continues survival
of both.

Well...


						Gryphon