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From: rosa@cheviot.UUCP
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Subject: Re: More on Minsky on Mind(s) (Reply to Davis)
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Date: Wed, 11-Feb-87 12:39:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 11 12:39:14 1987
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Keywords: Consciousness, Evolution, Functional Explanation,
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This is really afollow up to Cuigini but I do not have the moderators address.

Please refer to McCarthy's seminal work "The conciousness of Thermostats".
All good AI believers emphasize with thermostats rather than other humans.
Thank goodness I do computer science...(:-)

Has Zen and the art of Programming not gone far enough??? Please no more
philosophy, I admit it I do Not care about conciousness/minsky/the mind
brain identity problem....

Is it the cursor that moves, the computer that thinks or the human that controls?
None of these grasshopper, only a small data error on the tape of life.