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>From: michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar)
Subject: Re: SHRDLU's mind
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1992Apr6.023638.518@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1992Apr6.182533.109@psych.toronto.edu> <29E0B345.48E4@deneva.sdd.trw.com>
Message-ID: <1992Apr15.191554.22489@psych.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:15:54 GMT

In article <29E0B345.48E4@deneva.sdd.trw.com> shrdlu@willow.sdd.trw.com (Lynda L. True) writes:
>In article <1992Apr6.182533.109@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr6.023638.518@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs) writes:
>>>Kristoffer Eriksson:
>>>>Surely, no-one has suggested that SHRDLU is advanced enough to have
>>>>a mind?
>
>What? Of course I have a mind.
>
>>>The essential ingredients are a picture of
>>>the world, the ability to use it to accomplish goals, and some
>>>ability to communicate.  
>
>[Interesting argument concerning an unnamed robot deleted.}
>
>>>SHRDLU has all of these things (though
>>>its picture is actually of an "imagined" world), so I see no
>>>reason not to grant it a mind, albeit a primitive one.
>
>Thank you.
>
>>And for the reasons I give above (in part) I deny it a mind.
>
>I think (about small things, but nonetheless, I think), therefore I
>post.
>
>Shrdlu
>-- 
>shrdlu@rowan.sdd.trw.com (Lynda L. True)
>Work Phone - (310) 812-1660 or (310) 812-1570
>TRW, One Space Park Drive, R2/2062, Redondo Beach, CA

Hmm... does anyone know HAL9000's email address?

- michael




