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From: EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: RE: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence (long)
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Date: 9 Jan 89 22:08:20 GMT
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In article <558@soleil.UUCP>, peru@soleil.UUCP (Dave Peru) writes:

>
> Then why do we so often embrace the strange idea that what we do is done
> by Someone Else--that is, our Self?  Because so much of what our minds
> do is hidden from the parts of us that are involved with verbal
> consciousness."
>

     Interesting.  Have you read Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature,
     by Richard Rorty, which deconstructs the notion of the self as
     the lonely spectator in an otherwise deserted movie theater
     (damned sad picture, not so?).  According to Rorty, this notion
     got its start in the seventeenth century, and it is unnecessary.



Edward Nilges

"Where is the wisdom we lost in knowledge?  Where is the knowledge we
 lost in information?" - T. S. Eliot