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>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: SHRDLU's mind
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1992Apr7.002306.9823@news.media.mit.edu> <1992Apr7.211654.7694@psych.toronto.edu> <1992Apr8.073244.29543@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Message-ID: <1992Apr9.134554.9550@psych.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 13:45:54 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.073244.29543@ccu.umanitoba.ca> zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum) writes:
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>Here you are mistaken. There are such things as small minds
>and big minds. Would you not agree that small animals have
>small minds, insects have even smaller minds. The problem
>you are having is that you want to be able to limit the
>size of a mind (quantize mind?) this cannot be done without
>introducing a whole bunch of other problems, such as what is
>the smallest mind, etc..
>-- 
Please edit your followups more carefully.
I am not mistaken. You haven't been following the thread very closely.
The question is not whether ther are "big" and "small" minds, but whether
ther answer to such a question has any bearing on the *presence* of a
mind. It is not I who introduced the mind "quanta", but whoever it was that
said a thermostat has an "atom" of a mind. 

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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
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