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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Does the euclidean algorithm 'understand' division ?
Keywords: meaning, understanding
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Date: 24 Mar 92 20:46:05 GMT
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 The man from my-CR, has no intention of acting upon any of the 
 information which he processes, he is only a transliterator.
 If he had such an intention, if his actions conditioned, and were
 conditioned by,  the transliterations, then they would be translations.
 The man from my-CR is wearing a heavy gratecoat and it is not clear
 that he is a human at all, in fact he is a running-program.
 
 Does the euclidean algorithm 'understand' division ?


