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From: ian@oravax.UUCP (Ian Sutherland)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Can Machines Think?
Message-ID: <1328@oravax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 90 20:57:25 GMT
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In article <11185@thor.acc.stolaf.edu> taplin@thor.stolaf.edu (Brad Taplin) writes:
>In article <1326@oravax.UUCP> ian@oravax.odyssey.UUCP (Ian Sutherland) writes:
>
>>>>>mamoth, fuzzy, almost "humane" computer...
>Depends on the application.

Indeed.  If you really DON'T have enough flesh and blood friends, and
you prefer your friends to be mammoth, fuzzy and vague ;-) you might
want such a machine.  The kind of application the original poster was
talking about was one in which you wanted the machine to be
INTELLIGENT.  For applications such as this, I claim you don't want to
mimic the attributes of humans which cloud their thinking.
-- 
Ian Sutherland		ian%oravax.uucp@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu

Sans Peur