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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Robotic Follies (was re: Strong AI and Panpsy
Summary: no, vecchio infatuato!
Keywords: panpsychism
Message-ID: <1992Feb5.090941.8498@husc3.harvard.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 92 14:09:39 GMT
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In article <1992Feb5.021730.29817@nuscc.nus.sg> 
smoliar@iss.nus.sg (stephen smoliar) writes:

>In article <1992Feb4.191756.8478@husc3.harvard.edu> 
>zeleny@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

MZ:
>>There is no surer sign of militant mediocrity than vehement,
>>unsubstantiated, unqualified denunciation of an entire school of thought.

SS:
>I can think of one possible candidate for a better sign:  the substantiation
>of a denunciation (of either a school of thought, an individual thought, or
>a proponent) by one or more pointers to the literature (often vast) with
>little indication of just what is being pointed at or why it is relevant
>to the argument. 

Perhaps the problem has more to do with your reading comprehension or
attention span, than any error of omission or commission on my part.  Like
I said elsewhere, my exposition of Churchian semantics (an example of a
formal belief theory, the very possibility of which has been denounced by
Minsky on a priori grounds) can be found in the following articles:

	<1991Nov10.004631.5292@husc3.harvard.edu>  
	<1991Nov22.154821.5774@husc3.harvard.edu>  
	<1991Nov27.115032.5957@husc3.harvard.edu>
	<1991Dec20.134023.6825@husc3.harvard.edu>
	<1991Dec21.015234.6837@husc3.harvard.edu>    

Again, a summary will be posted on request.

SS:
>                  Perhaps I enjoy Minsky's provocations the way I enjoy
>dissonance in music, while I find that your own outbursts tend to dismiss,
>rather than incite.  I admire Searle's gift for rhetoric even when he uses
>it to confuse rather than clarify.  Your own rhetoric, on the other hand,
>is no longer refreshing but has become tedious, "pare un libro stampato"--just
>like the raging of that poor nun seduced and abandoned by Don Giovanni.

Poor nun indeed... it's nice to know that your taste for dissonance in
music has permitted you to appreciate Mozart and da Ponte -- about as much
as you appreciate Kant and company.

	No, no, ch'io non mi pento;
	vanne lontan da me.

>-- 
>Stephen W. Smoliar; Institute of Systems Science
>National University of Singapore; Heng Mui Keng Terrace
>Kent Ridge, SINGAPORE 0511
>Internet:  smoliar@iss.nus.sg


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