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>From: c89ponga@odalix.ida.liu.se (Pontus Gagge)
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Subject: Re: Robotic Follies (was re: Strong AI and Panpsychism)
Keywords: panpsychism
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Date: 2 Feb 92 22:11:12 GMT
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zeleny@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

>In article <21879@life.ai.mit.edu> 
>minsky@transit.ai.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:

>>In article <1992Jan28.164410.9509@psych.toronto.edu> 
>>michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar) writes:

[deletions]

MM:
>>                                                          Simply
>>because the human mind is not a simple data-base plus processor, or
>>axiom-set plus -rule(s) of inference.

MZ:
>I will pay a bounty of US $100 to anyone who is the first to present me
>with proof that the above straw man view has ever been held by any thinker
>outside of the AI community, in particular by a known philosopher.

Will you pay me to show that the view has been attributed AI proponents
in general by anti-AI philosophers looking for easy targets? Better yet, 
pay me a mere $10 per head - I want to make *big* money. Mr. Zeleny, only
a maximally malicious reading of Mr. Minsky's article could make anyone
believe he attributed this belief to AI opponents.

[deletions: substance from Mr. Minsky, rhetoric from Mr. Zeleny - not
 necessarily *bad* rhetoric, but rhetoric nevertheless]
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