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>From: lsmith@cs.umn.edu (Lance "Cogsworth" Smith)
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Subject: Re: The Philosophical Foibles of John McCarthy
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[Assorted discussion of the fall from favor of the term "Artificial 
 Intelligence."]

Perhaps we should complete the circle and go back to using "Cybernetics". 

-- 
            Lance Smith                  | "It is a far, far better thing to 
        (lsmith@cs.umn.edu)              |  have a firm anchor in nonsense 
     "We gladly feast on those           |  than to put out on the troubled
        who would subdue us."            |  seas of thought."


