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From: mjs14@unix.brighton.ac.uk (shute)
Subject: Re: Folk psychology (was: Is Common Sense Explicit or Implicit?)
Message-ID: <1994Oct3.131352.4213@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Brighton, UK
References: <1994Sep27.141324.5893@oracorp.com% <Cwut0z.Jst@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 13:13:52 GMT
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In article <Cwut0z.Jst@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca% pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor) writes:
%It seems to me that an artificial
%"brain" which could for instance be able to solve difficult mental puzzles,
%mathematical problems, knew laws of physics and could use them to reason
%about natural phenomena would be considered intelligent. It migh be considered
%to be without feelings, without sense of humor, without empathy, but still
%intelligent. Whether it would be accepted as an equal, from the point of view
%of rights, is another story. Probably it would not if it could not convince 
%humans that it can suffer, but this is more a cultural phenomenon.

Isn't this precisely one of the issues which the script writers of
Startrek were attempting to address when they invented the Spock character??
-- 

Malcolm SHUTE.         (The AM Mollusc:   v_@_ )        Disclaimer: all

