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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Folk psychology (was: Is Common Sense Explicit or Implicit?)
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References: <1994Sep27.141324.5893@oracorp.com% <Cwut0z.Jst@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca> <1994Oct3.131352.4213@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 15:15:19 GMT
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In article <1994Oct3.131352.4213@unix.brighton.ac.uk>,
shute <mjs14@unix.brighton.ac.uk> wrote:
>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??

Right, but please note how on innumerous occasions the human characters take
pleasure in showing that _in fact_ Spock _is_ confused, or upset, etc. In
other words, Spock shows traces of feelings, although he suppreses them.

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


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