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>From: petersow@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Wayne Peterson)
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Subject: Re: Strong AI and panpsychism
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Sorry I'm responding to the wrong posting here, so use a little
imagination.

Mr Onstott, I heartily agree.  Computers are not people.  And
programs are not thoughts.  I think you are right to pursue
a biological approach to intelligence and I wish you well.
Meanwhile we computer weanees need to just try to make
our programs "smarter".  I've enjoyed this little debate
with you.  Any man who quotes Socrates is a friend of mind.

Someday I suspect there will be a synthesis of biology and
computers, then we will have Data.

Until then there is one pursuit worth our endeavers:
"Know Thyself"

Regards
Wayne Peterson
"The unexamined life is not worth living" --some old Greek


