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From: zocy641@ut-emx.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Can Machines Think?
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Date: 8 Jan 90 00:24:43 GMT
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Reply-To: hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb)
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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	Fred writes a program on his clone to sieve for primes.  He then does
a hex-dump of the compiled machine code, and puts the printout in a bottle.

	The bottle washes ashore at the feet of Sam.  Sam has never seen a
clone, in fact he has had no contact with any modern folks.  Still he
belives the symbols are some sort of message.  Through great effort he finally
extracts the algorithm from the code.  Is there not then a realtion between
the symbols the two men express the algorithm with?

	Where then where the symbols hiding in the bottle?

	BTW INHO I will be convenced to let the AIs vote in Usenet elections,
when they can proform visual parsing.  I.e. I send them some pictures in (say)
Postscript, and they reply as to what they see.  When I am content with the
response, I will welcome them aboard.

	As a test case to calibrate the results, let's try the test on the
current Usenet lusers.  Send your entries to:

	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu