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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The limitations of logic
Message-ID: <1686@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 15 Dec 88 18:06:10 GMT
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In article <42962@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) writes:
>
>OK.  Let's say the simulated brain considers itself to be a
>self-directed free thinker.  The question remains.  How does
>it select the subject of its contemplation?

The same way you do:  as a response to continuous stimulation by your
environment, and the occasional random fluctuation in attention level,
along with the mechanisms that keep churning your thoughts within
your memory apparati.

If it thinks, I would have no doubt that ceasing to stimulate it
would allow it to dream.

				--Blair