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>From: tom@csustan.csustan.edu (Tom Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Impossibility of flight vs impossibility of AI
Message-ID: <1992Jan22.083324.24018@csustan.csustan.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 92 08:33:24 GMT
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In article <1992Jan21.184559.17670@aisb.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>Flight is not analogous to consciousness, thinking, etc, because
>as-if flight is the same as flight.

Of course, to be sure we are clear on the issue, we should probably note
that since everyone agrees that submarines don't `swim', then
as-if swimming is not the same as swimming, so we should shift to that
analogy . . .  :-) (maybe?)

Tom Carter                      tom@csustan.csustan.edu


