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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: The problem of the commons
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Date: 11 Feb 92 20:14:09 GMT
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In article <POLLACK.92Feb10180646@dendrite.cis.ohio-state.edu> pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu writes:

>4623: [ 15:jeff@aiai.ed.] Re: Functionalist Theory of Qualia
>4624: [ 11:jeff@aiai.ed.] Re: Multiple Personality Disorder and Strong AI
>4625: [ 19:jeff@aiai.ed.] Re: Strong AI and panpsychism (was Re: Virtual Person?)
>4626: [ 56:jeff@aiai.ed.] Re: Robotic Follies
>4627: [ 23:jeff@aiai.ed.] Re: Functionalist Theory of Qualia
>4628:+[ 52:jeff@aiai.ed.] Re: Strong AI and Panpsychism
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>I mean no insult to Jeff, Dave, or Mikhail, 

Ok, but what is your point then?  That I shouldn't post articles with
more than, say, 2 subject lines?  That I shouldn't post too close
together?

I think you're misunderstanding what's going on.  There are a huge
number of articles in comp.ai.phil.  I am in a number of ongoing
discussions, but fewer than the subject lines would indicate.  At
first (some time last year) it was only one, and not even in this
newsgroup!  I didn't read this newsgroup at all.  But the discussion
branched, and new subject lines were added.  I can't always read News
every day, so sometime I read, say, 100 or 200 messages and answer
some -- all in one day.  Hence phenomena like the above.

It has nothing to do with:

>so hungry now that they all must on every little sprout, as if they could
>possibly own the whole common meadow:

If you think my postings aren't worth reading, there's a simple
solution: put me in your kill file.  Or you might try sending me
e-mail.

BTW, just because you can cite Axelrod doesn't mean you're right.


