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Article 7313 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: mhf4421@usl.edu (Flynn Matthew H)
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Subject: Digressions
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This doesn't have much to do with philosophy, although I would suspect
it might have some applications in AI....

Has anyone considered kooking at how we go off on tangents and digress
phenomenonally?  I mean, look at this newsgroup....as a digression I brought
up the topic of the arbitrary nature of symbols--particularly in language
where Jaques Derrida has spawned a constantly growing and particularly 
hated field of criticism known as deconstruction designed to show the 
futility and meaningless of language.  
Somehow the conversation reached the level of response centers in developing
infants' minds... among other things.

I wonder if there is acttually a chaotic pattern to these digressions, and if
we could build an algorithm to simulate a newsgroup. What do you think:-)

Matt Flynn
University of Southwestern Louisiana


