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>From: santas@inf.ethz.ch (Philip Santas)
Subject: Re: lights on, nobody home
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In article <BpDpvJ.L84@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>In article <22134@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>>
>>Unfortunately, someone lost the user
>>manual for homo sapiens. No problem, however, since, like the
>>Macintosh, homo sapiens comes equipped with a simple user metaphor
>>which any fool can understand.
>
>And guess where homo sapiens' "mouse" is?
>Freud knew.  Funny, I've never heard it called
>*that* before. Sorry, I couldn't resist... :-)

Notice that the 50% of the HS definition is not related to a Mac.
This comes in accordance with the simplicity of understanding
the relevant metaphors :-)

Philip Santas

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