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Article 7345 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: avl0@cine88.cineca.it
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Brain and Mind (was: Logic and God)
Message-ID: <1992Oct20.163302.579@cine88.cineca.it>
Date: 20 Oct 92 16:33:02 +0100
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> <tim.719123764@giaeb> tim@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Tim Roberts) writes:
>
>This thread is getting rather repetitive. Am I alone in thinking that most AI
>researchers would be more constructively occupied by getting on and producing
>intelligent machines, which can perceive, understand, reason, etc just
>like you and me, rather than engaging in this non-winnable debate ?
>
>And that when these machines also look just like you and me, and act just
>like you and me, the whole question as to whether they have consciousness
>will appear so ridiculous that it will not even be worth debating....since
>if I believe YOU have consciousness, which I do, there will be absolutely
>no justification whatsoever for denying consciousness to that nice Ms Robot
>over there....even if she does have green slime instead of blood.
>
>Tim

Great! When you'll make such an android I'll be the first to buy it. 
It will be my preferred toy and if it will bore me I'll can switch it off.
By the way ... can you tell me why I can't kill my boring wife?

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