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From: lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The Success of AI
Message-ID: <1056@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 07:16:43 EST
Article-I.D.: uhccux.1056
Posted: Tue Nov  3 07:16:43 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 04:09:19 EST
References: <193@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <224@bernina.UUCP> <1641@pdn.UUCP>
Reply-To: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
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Summary: human operating system may be a problem



In article <1641@pdn.UUCP> alan@pdn.UUCP (0000-Alan Lovejoy) writes:
>In article <224@bernina.UUCP> srp@bernina.UUCP (Scott Presnell) writes:
>/In article <193@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> spe@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Sean Engelson) writes:
>/>Given a sufficiently powerful computer, I could, in theory, simulate
>/> ...
>/ ...
>Simulated horse shit!  I can write a simulator for the IBM-PC to run on
>a Macintosh-II, without knowing or understanding all the IBM-PC programs
> ...
Maybe a good analogy.  I once wrote a simulator for CPM-80 inside CPM-86,
and found that much of the effort was in simulating the CPM-80 operating
and io systems, even though the two systems are very similar. How
would you compare our knowledge of the IBM-PC operating system with
our knowledge of the human system?
	Greg Lee, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu