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Article 4642 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
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Subject: Re: The Systems Reply I
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Date: 19 Mar 92 10:42:12 GMT
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In article <6422@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>  But is that because this system understands geometry or
>because the programmers (or the mathematicians they consulted)
>understand geometry?

Why do you think there is an incompatibility between these two kinds
of cause? Do biological systems work the way they do because of the
chemical reactions of the molecules they consist of, or because of the
quantum mechanical operations of the quantum particles they consist of,
or because evolution made them that way?

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