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Subject: Re: Humor - Artificial Life
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Date: Thu, 21-May-87 07:35:26 EDT
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In article <8705180545.AA27470@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> NHAAS@IBM.COM
(Norman Haas) writes:
>(In case this point hasn't already been made, re the "Artificial Life" confer-
>ence announcement a few issues back:)
>
>  Why stop with life?  Let's go all the way:
>
>  1. Artificial Culture and Civilization, including
>          Artificial Natural Languages
>  2. Artificial Science, including
>          Artificial Research in the field of Artificial Intelligence

Nah - that's not all the way. We also need

   3. Artificial reasoning.

This is when people who nothing about epistemology (philosophical and
anthropological/sociologial aspects) or psychology lock themselves away on
an AI project and make things up about how people reason. I may be
oldfashioned, but I do miss empirical substance and conceptual coherence
:-) :-):-) :-) :-):-) :-) :-):-) :-) :-):-) :-) :-):-) :-) :-):-) :-) :-):-)
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