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Article 5428 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Subject: Re: Question: Minds and Machines
In-Reply-To: christo@psych.toronto.edu's message of Tue, 5 May 1992 20: 17:03 GMT
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Date: Wed, 6 May 1992 18:26:13 GMT

christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:

   bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs) writes:
   
   >  Regarding (1), the greatest resemblence is at a very abstract level:
   >both computers and brains are essentially information processing
   >devices.  

   Nothing like a little whole-hearted question-begging to get things
   off on the right foot, eh? Brains are no more *essentially* information
   processing devices than weather systems are. [etc]

Nothing like a little pronouncement to the contrary to get things off on
the right foot, eh? Now, if we only had some substance...

   Nice try. :-)

Your turn.

oz


