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Article 2964 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: jeff@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: Impossibility of flight vs impossibility of AI
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Date: 21 Jan 92 18:45:59 GMT
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In article <1992Jan21.144204.29245@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com writes:
>
>I was trying to make an analogy between artificial intelligence and
>artificial flight. Considering birds and bees as evidence for the
>possibility of an artificial flying machine is comparable, in my
>opinion, to considering humans as evidence of the possibility of an
>artificial thinking machine.

Flight is not analogous to consciousness, thinking, etc, because
as-if flight is the same as flight.


