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Subject: Re: The success of AI (misunderstandings)
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Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 22:38:41 EST
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this is exemplary of what happens when many perspectives enter the
picture and words flow . I submit the following :
  It was Von Neuman himself ( I believe) who said that anything
that can be calculated precisely i.e. mathematically can be done
better by a computer .  ( I think this should pass even by the
most rabid hater of computers )

I note that man who is getting lambasted used the words computed
and computational.  I should think he would agree that if one began
to talk of reflection , intuition and so on , the conversation
would be totally different . Else are we to think that with great enough
and intensive computation the machine will eventually exhibit awareness
of itself as something that is .?!