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Article 4203 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
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Subject: Re: Definition of understanding
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Date: 2 Mar 92 18:04:23 GMT
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In article <1992Mar2.021152.22040@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu  
(Christopher Green) writes:
| In article <1992Feb29.204525.1685@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com writes:
| >
| >Come on, Mikhail, do you really think that funding for AI has dropped
| >because of Searle's *philosophical* arguments?
| 
| Among those of us trying to get jobs in cognitive science, it's widely
| known (or at least believed) that AI's getting cut because military
| spending's getting cut. The gov't couldn't care less about knowledge
| per se, but if it can kill a few thousand of "The Enemy" more 
| effectively, that's another story. :-(

Not to mention the autonomous land vehicle (ALV) debacle.


