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>From: michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar)
Subject: Re: Comments on Searle - What could causal powers be?
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1992May13.001033.14320@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992May14.164117.25016@psych.toronto.edu> <1992May17.063530.27210@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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Date: Mon, 18 May 1992 18:41:45 GMT

In article <1992May17.063530.27210@ccu.umanitoba.ca> zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum) writes:

>	The difference between the school of fish intelligence
>and a "real" intelligence is just that the school of fish
>cannot know anything about the real world. 

Not at all, although the world it "knows" is presumably vastly
different from the world of you and I.  The SoF reacts to such things
as food concetrations, temperature changes, even the presence of
predators.  Sure, these stimuli may be very different from the
one's that humans react to, but they are no more different in principle
than the stimuli that a bat or spider reacts to.  It is merely human
prejudice to say that the only "real" world is the one that we
perceive.

- michael 




