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From: jiml@alberta.UUCP (Jim Laycock)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Non-carbon based life
Message-ID: <134@cavell.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 04:03:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  5 04:03:22 1987
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In article <1767@sfsup.UUCP> glg@/guest4/glgUUCP (xmpj20000-G.Gleason) writes:
|Food for thought:  If somehow artifitial intellegence developes into a
|reality rather than a limited game we play with computers, and a group
|of intellegent robots are isolated either by extinction of carbon-based
|life, or simply physical separation.  Imagine what a tricky problem it
|would be for these robots to speculate about their origins.  Even if
|they came accross carbon-based life again, I don't think they would
|ever believe they evolved from that, much less that such creatures
|actually designed and assembled their ancestors.
|Gerry Gleason

Precisely this issue is addressed in James P. Hogan's _Code of the Life
Maker_ -- a fantastic book
 
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  Jim Laycock		Philosophy grad, University of Alberta
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