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>From: Brad Taplin <btaplin@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: The Lawnmower Man.
Message-ID: <1992Jun15.132241.11521@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Summary: Read Penrose...
Organization: Indiana University
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1992 13:22:31 -0500
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In article <2672@ucl-cs.uucp> G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:
>The Lawnmower Man becomes a superbeing and ends up by "merging" with
>the mainframe. 
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>AI Philisophy: can we ever consider doing this for real - that is to
>say taking a "sub-human" and making them superhuman by adding in more
>intelligence?

	Roger Penrose has written a wonderful book that addresses
	this in part: "The Emperor's New Mind" covers a lot of AI
	and is rather critical/skeptical of the assumptions often
	made on many sides of the questions. Multiple issues here.

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