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From: plugge@cs.rulimburg.nl (Leo Plugge)
Subject: Re: TT again (was Re: Is there a spiritual force etc.?)
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References: <19940922.181109.533@almaden.ibm.com> <1994Sep26.185332.28245@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu> <1994Sep29.145854.16970@ttd.teradyne.com> <1994Oct3.130943.3995@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 14:36:32 GMT

In article <1994Oct3.130943.3995@unix.brighton.ac.uk> mjs14@unix.brighton.ac.uk (shute) writes:

[snip snip]

>In article <1994Sep29.145854.16970@ttd.teradyne.com> martin@ttd.teradyne.com
>(Michael Martin) writes:
>>First you have to define conciousness and intelegence.  If the subject can
>>meet all criteria you have defined, then it meets your definition of 
>>conciousness.

>I don't see this at all.
>I've spent the last 38 years going around identifying intelligent and
>conscious things to talk to, and unintelligent and unconscious things
>to not bother talking to.

>But I most certainly do *not* have a definition of intelligence and/or
>consciousness to offer you.

Right, that is why some people talk to snakes, rats, etc., and some don't.

-Leo-

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