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>From: rudis+@cs.cmu.edu (Rujith S DeSilva)
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In article <1992Oct7.223200.29547@nwnexus.WA.COM> stemp@halcyon.com (Kevin
Stemp) writes:
>does life begin at the instant the sperm penetrates the egg, or when the two
>pronucleoi fuse, when meiosis stops, after the egg implants, in the 3rd week,
>or after the child is born, or hell, maybe after 1 year????

Does a program become intelligent when the program is written, or when it is
released, or when the program is invoked, or when it is paged in from disk, or
hell, maybe after 10 milli-seconds? :-)

Assuming that you have indeed got the wrong newsgroup, what did you think
computers could have had with the philosophy of artificial insemination?

Rujith de Silva.
Carnegie-Mellon.


