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>From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
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In article <DAVIDMC.91Nov21100802@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> davidmc@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (davidmc) writes:
>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.)

But a machine-centered view is. For example,  some of the hopes of
AI types include development of a machine that will supersede humans.
If that ain't anti-humanistic, I don't know what is.


