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From: andrew@cee.hw.ac.uk (Andrew Dinn)
Subject: Re: Does AI make philosophy obsolete?
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John McCarthy (jmc@Steam.stanford.edu) wrote:

...

: There are mixed systems.  Consider a xerox machine.  They have
: computers in them these days, and their actions are conditional on
: many factors. ...

What like, say, a Xerox Lisp machine? Are you trying to suggest that
it has another small computer inside of it - like, say, another Xerox
Lisp machine? Boy, I bet Hume is gyrating (not to mention Larry
Masinter).


Andrew Dinn
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