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From: paumur@states.demon.co.uk (Paul Murphy)
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Subject: Artificail??
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>From: Zindar <zindar@america.net>

>	Just wanted to post, even if it is sort of stupid.  Any how...  I 
>read a lot of sci-fi (like everyone here I would imagine) and  read a 
>decient book called _The Turing Option_.  It was ok.  But in the corse of
>the book a succesfull AI was created.  And one of the first things 'it' 
>thought was what is so artificial about my intelligence? Once 'it' became
>self aware, why would it be artificial.  It there for dubbed itself  
>Machine Intelligence.  
>	So, my point it, once we are successful in creating a sentient 
>being, will is still be artificial ??

Artificial just means made by humans.  So by definition, if we made it, 
then it is artificial.  If the machines don't like that, then they should 
just stop emotionally loading words.

Paul.



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