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Article 4618 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Causes and Goals (was re: The Systems Reply I
Message-ID: <19326@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Mar 92 19:02:33 GMT
References: <1992Mar16.003442.9891@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Mar16.224536.2719@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> <515@trwacs.fp.trw.com>
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In article <515@trwacs.fp.trw.com> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
>I am reminded of a certain species of monkey that raises it's tail when it
>is nervous. This is an automatic reaction, to the extent that individuals
>have been observed holding their tail down when they didn't want to be
>seen as being nervous, yet this also communicates expressive meaning.
>Non-intentionality communicating expressive meaning...

You should spend more time with human beings, they do this kind of
thing all the time too. For example, they grin involuntarily, and when
not wanting to be seen grinning, conceal it with a hand or something.
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205


