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From: roland@cochise.pcs.com (Roland Rambau)
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Subject: Re: Can machines think....
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Date: 19 Feb 90 16:58:35 GMT
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pat@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu (-Midnight Aesthete) writes:

->What is so awful about saying that bosons think?  And the Rockies?
->Why do people insist on intelligence being "human-like" thought?  Isn't
->it a bit self-righteous to make ourselves the measure on our own scale?

I didn't say it can't be true -- i said nobody is interested in it.

->How far has epistemology gotten anyway?

I made an economic argument, not an epistemological one.
( I do this in an attempt to better understand the eternal
debate about "Can submarines swim?" :-)

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Roland Rambau

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