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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Wallis Levels
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Date: 31 Mar 92 01:38:33 GMT
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In article <1992Mar30.211335.19880@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Tony Wallis) writes:
>To reduce fruitless interactions resulting from incompatible positions
>on such world-viewpoint-shattering questions as Chinese Rooms, the
>Turing Test, do calculators "understand" arithmetic, etc, etc,
>I suggest posters to this group indicate what level they are at in
>the following hierarchy of responses to the question :
>        "Did Adam have a navel ?"
>
>Level 0: Who's "Adam" ?   What's a "navel" ?
>
>Level 1: Of course he did !  All humans have a navel.  Adam was a
...
 Yes , Wallis-Levels would provide a good taxonomic methodology for
 an implementation of an optimal query-rendez-vous algorithm.
 There is, however a potential problem arising from split-levels and
 split-hairs.  Someone will certainly have another motivating analogy
 which can resolve the level splitting???  


