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>From: daryl@oracorp.com
Subject: Re: Strong AI and panpsychism
Message-ID: <1992Feb7.142932.2005@oracorp.com>
Organization: ORA Corporation
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1992 14:29:32 GMT

Mikhail Zeleny writes: (In response to David Chalmers)

> Bravo! having declared yourself a dualist, you are now well on the way
> to becoming perhaps the very first Platonist ever to grace the AI
> supporter camp!  For how do you propose to "cut the nature at its
> joints" without inferring the Third Realm of immutable Forms that
> determine the boundaries thereof?

I don't think that David Chalmers would claim to be a Platonist.
However, I don't see any incompatibility between Platonism and Strong
AI. It seems to me to be consistent to believe that minds are
essentially mathematical in nature, and so therefore "live" in the
realm of immutable forms.

Daryl McCullough
ORA Corp.
Ithaca, NY
 


