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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: How can you get teleology?
Message-ID: <1992Mar23.203303.13498@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 92 20:33:03 GMT
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In article <1992Mar23.175842.4015@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>Neil Rickert comments:
>>  It may often be the case that the "goal oriented behavior" begins
>>first, and the "goal" is invented later as a rationalization for
>>this behavior.
>
>I think it's Searle's point that this is *not* the case with at least
>certain human actions.

 I don't have any disagreement with this, since you carefully inserted the
word "certain".  But I believe we underestimate the importance of behavior
which is not goal oriented, perhaps because we are not as consciously aware
of it.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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