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Article 6766 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: Mind Reading
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>> I suppose we all use personal experience as an input to our research. I'm
>> going to describe something here that has influenced my ideas.

What an admission! :-)

>> I've learned over the years to read minds. This is _not_ ESP, but rather a
>> four-stage process as follows:
>> 
>> 1. Instantiate a personality model,
>> 2. Calibrate it based on observation,
>> 3. Do a process switch into the calibrated model,
>> 4. Observe the model.
>> [...]

How would artificial mind reading (c.f. AI) be distinct from real mind
reading? The sort of thing we experience from time to time 

``Let's go for a walk to buy bread'' ... ``I was just thinking about
exactly that ...''

is too subtle to be measured objectively.

>> [...]
>> The results are often startling, and it is the simple existence of this
>> sort of ability that leads me to speculate on distributed cognition in
>> social groups.
>> [...]
>> - -- 
>> Harry Erwin
>> Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com
>>

But how does that feedback into the (model of the) individual?

Gordon.

``Love sex intelligence, coming on like a seventh sense'' - The Shamen.
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