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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Strong AI and panpsychism
Message-ID: <1992Feb25.012928.15480@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 92 01:29:28 GMT
References: <1992Feb24.212351.8001@oracorp.com>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1992Feb24.212351.8001@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com writes:
>Neil Rickert writes:
>
>I hope you are aware of why many people feel uncomfortable with that
>view. If you take I/O as primary, then it means that a human being has
>no thoughts if those thoughts have no effect on his or her outputs. A

  I said the I/O is primary.  I didn't say it excludes all else.  However
it probably is true that almost all thoughts have ultimate effects on
interaction with the world.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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