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>From: bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: O-I ( other intelligence )
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Date: 20 Apr 92 15:33:13 GMT
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In article <1992Apr20.010947.23359@news.media.mit.edu> 
minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
>
>I often wonder how to find out, when my cat jumps up
>onto a table, if it has some sort of representation for anticipating
>finding a surface when it gets there.  In a couple of decades or
>centuries, we'll have scanners to show us the wiring diagrams of such
>representations.
>
  But we don't need scanners to know that such a representation
exists.  We need only observe how surprised the cat is if the
anticipated surface turns out not to be there.  :-)

	-- Bill


