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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Robots & free will (was Re: The limitations of logic)
Summary: Goal: Artificial Sentient Beings by the End of the Millenium.
Keywords: Choosing thoughts.
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Date: 5 Jan 89 13:21:34 GMT
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In article <549@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (Daniel Mocsny) writes:

 > I have to side with Gilbert's views on the prospects for
 > super-rational machines of our invention guiding our affairs with
 > wisdom and benevolence.  To me this sounds like a long reach, to say
 > the very least. I think a more realistic approach, though hardly one
 > I'm going to bet on, is to understand and modify the mechanisms of
 > violent human behavior. At least we have a thin shred of hope: already
 > some people, in some contexts, live much of their lives without
 > _deliberately_ inflicting harm on their neighbors.

I suppose we can let the neuroanatomists and the psychiatrists and
the psychologists and the sociologists work on the second aproach,
while the cognitive scientists and cyberneticians and computer
engineers work toward the more distant goal.  (Ain't parallel
processing a wonderful invention?)

--Barry Kort