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Article 3102 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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Subject: Re: Strong AI and panpsychism (was Re: Virtual Person?)
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>From: chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (The Technicolour Throw-up)
Date: 24 Jan 92 17:23:10 +1300
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>From article <1992Jan23.015152.510@psych.toronto.edu>, by michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar):
> Who knows, under some description, if Strong AI is correct, the molecules of
> air in the room I'm in might, at least for a moment, constitute a mind. 
> Perhaps if the amount of cash in every cash register in the world were taken
> as activation levels in a network, the world economy would have a mind. 
> Maybe, by converting gravitational attraction into electrical current, we
> could see that all the stars in the galaxy constitute a mind.  

An even more interesting possibility is whether networked humans
would constitute some kind of mind.  I'm thinking in particular of
Usenet - which certainly has persistence.
--
Just my two rubber ningis worth.
Name: Michael Chisnall          email: chisnall@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz


