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From: kp@uts.amdahl.com (Ken Presting)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Do dogs love their humans (was: Can machines think....)
Summary: Mooooo...
Message-ID: <3aeZ022c8dEN01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 1 Mar 90 19:57:42 GMT
References: <2313@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu> <1990Feb19.165835.9673@pcsbst.pcs.com> <1990Feb27.162610.16639@comm.WANG.COM> <4030@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> <3839@uceng.UC.EDU>
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In article <3839@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) writes:
>In article <4030@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> jwi@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) writes:
>>Language is exactly the point. The French have 47 words for love, the Eskimos
>>have 47 words for snow, and the English language speakers have one word for
>>think -- obviously, thinking is not a large part of our culture. As a result,
>
>Let's see:
>
> . . .
> . . .    reason, deliberate, mull over, contemplate, meditate, ruminate,
> . . .

I like "ruminate".  Philosophical problems just never get digested...