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>From: davidmc@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (davidmc)
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Subject: Re: Daniel Dennett
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In-Reply-To: michael@mwc.com's message of 18 Nov 91 15:06:45 GMT

zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
   >I believe that the very notion of "Man a Machine" is anti-humanistic both
   >in its intrinsic nature, and in its historical development (the guillotine,
   >labor camps, terrorist state).

Is a non-anthropocentric theory necessarily anti-humanistic?
(I don't think so.)

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David McFadzean (davidmc@cpsc.ucalgary.ca)
Knowledge Sciences Institute
University of Calgary


