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From: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Can Machines Think?
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Date: 9 Jan 90 10:09:39 GMT
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In article <25621@cup.portal.com> Nagle@cup.portal.com (John - Nagle) writes:
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>     We had this discussion last year.  Everybody in the field has
>heard it altogether too many times.  Could we get the philosophy
>out of comp.ai, please?

Look, we wait all year for the science, and if we don't see any we're
entitled to some philosophy at the end of the year as a reward for
our patience.

I vote the discussion continues until an interesting result in AI is
announced :-)

As an alternative to the Sci Am discussion, post articles on the
following:

"The death of positivism in the study of Man rules out Truth in AI"

No credit will be given for postings which do not use real AI papers as
examples.

Candidates must write on one side of the text editor.
-- 
Gilbert Cockton, Department of Computing Science,  The University, Glasgow
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