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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
Message-ID: <2804@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 88 16:57:30 GMT
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Organization: University of Hawaii
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From article <840@quintus.UUCP>, by ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe):
" ...  For example, it is not the case that all people can be
" hypnotised, whereas if a subject can be hypnotised by one mesmerist he or
" she can usually be hypnotised by another.  This ought to suggest to us that
" just maybe hypnosis might be something that subjects do, rather than something
" that hypnotists do.

Some bottles are harder to open than others, therefore bottles open themselves.
Some programs are harder to write than others, so computers have free
will.  (This method of argument has great possibilities.)

" ...
" A key point here is cognitive dissonance.  (Look it up in any good
" Psychology library.)  People make up stories to account for their actions
" all the time, and believe them too. ...

All the time.  Precisely.  And one of the most popular is the story
about free will.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu