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Subject: Re: Dennett on pain (was Does AI make philosophy obsolete?)
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John McCarthy writes:
>More sensitive than thou - is he?

I wouldn't want to force an interpretation, but it seems
as if it is an expression of pain - the very thing the
analogy of the rock was supposed to illustrate the approximateness
of.  (Is this pain approximate too?)

Say a pain of barrenness.
