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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Biological relevance and AI (was Re: Who else isn't a science?)
Message-ID: <1972@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 88 17:28:36 GMT
References: <23201@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Organization: University of Hawaii
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From article <23201@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, by wlieberm@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (William Lieberman):
" ...
" 	A reasonable question. Then when helium was demonstrated to exist
" on the sun (through spectrographic analysis around the 1860's??) and around
" the same time when the table of the elements was being built up empirically
"...
" the chemists are correct - with relatively few elements, such is the matter
" of the universe existing. What I'm saying here is that it may be prudent
" to expect not too many diverse 'forms' of intelligence around. Rough
" analogy, I agree; but sometimes the history of science can provide useful
" ...

It's not even analogous unless you have a table of intelligence.  Maybe
you do.  If so, how many entries does it have room for?

		Greg Lee, uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu