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From: lantz@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Bob Lantz)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Free Will & Self-Awareness
Message-ID: <8815@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 3 May 88 00:13:58 GMT
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John Nagle writes (17424@glacier.stanford.edu)

>     Could the philosophical discussion be moved to "talk.philosophy"?
>... the major names in AI (both Minsky and McCarthy read AILIST), the content
>of this one must be improved a bit.

One could just as easily abstract the articles on cognitive psychology,
programming, algorithms, or several other topics equally relevant to AI.
Considering AI is an interdisciplinary endeavor combining philosophy,
psychology, and computer science (for example) it seems unwise to 
artificially narrow the scope of discussion.

I expect most readers of comp.AI (and Minsky, McCarthy, McDermott...
other AI people whose names start with 'M') have interests in multiple
facets of this fascinating discipline.

-Bob

Bob_Lantz@dartmouth.EDU