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From: rayt@cognos.UUCP (R.)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Thinking about the reduction of Entropy.
Keywords: Heat Death and Light Life.
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Date: 13 Apr 89 21:26:52 GMT
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In article <5778@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> SINGH S writes:
 
>Oh come on. No intelligent species would consciously take self-destruction
>as a goal. It is just a consequence of it being more complex that it
>is less efficient.

Curiously, I see the entire human endeavour toward increased capability
and knowledge as just this drive toward self destruction - the destruction
of the self as it exists now; that is, a transcendence. There are even
those who consider the destruction of the ego (perhaps more a shifting
of its dominance) as a (necessary) stage in human development. This, though,
is getting somewhat far from AI, so I suggest that any followups go to
Talk.philosophy.misc.

						R.
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