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From: dwt@EECS.UMICH.EDU (David West)
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Subject: Re: Intelligent Nanocomputers
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Date: 1 Feb 88 18:22:46 GMT
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Let me be quite clear: in my earlier posting I intended to ridicule neither
Eric Drexler nor the idea of molecular machinery. I *did* intend to ridicule
the idea that meaningful simulation is possible in the absence of sufficient 
knowledge and understanding of the system one is allegedly simulating.
-David West