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From: gordon@warwick.UUCP (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: Survival Intincts
Message-ID: <292@euclid.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-May-86 11:35:04 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 14 11:35:04 1986
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Reply-To: gordon@euclid.UUCP (Gordon Joly)
Organization: Maths Institute, Warwick University, UK
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In article <312@ulowell.UUCP> dobro@ulowell.UUCP (Chet Dobro) writes:
>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

(Wo)man makes machine. Machine makes (wo)man? Ah, machine uses Plan 5...

                                                Joka