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Article 2914 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Impossibility of flight vs impossibility of AI
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Date: 20 Jan 92 15:33:28 GMT
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In article <62560@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:

>This analogy is bogus: it was known in 1890 that heavier-than-air
>flight was empirically possible.

1890?? Birds and bees are heavier than air, fly, and people have known
that for longer than they've been people.
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Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
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