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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The limitations of logic
Message-ID: <1656@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 11 Dec 88 19:04:38 GMT
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In article <42836@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Kort) writes:
>In article <1628@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) 
>wonders what we would expect a topologically and neuromimetically
>accurate model of a brain to think.
>
>I imagine the simulated brain would take stock of the situation
>and inquire of its creator, "To what purpose or goal shall I devote
>my ability to think?"
>
>And if you were the creator of that simulated brain, how would you answer
>that simulated question?

"My child, to whatever your little double-poly-technology heart desires."

				--Blair
				  "Practicing for RoboDaddyhood, or
				   a career in VLSI genetics..."