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>From: freitag@elrond.toppoint.de (Claus Schoenleber)
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Subject: Re: Does the euclidean algorithm 'understand' division ?
Keywords: meaning, understanding
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silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber) writes:

> 
>  The man from my-CR, has no intention of acting upon any of the 
>  information which he processes, he is only a transliterator.
>  If he had such an intention, if his actions conditioned, and were
>  conditioned by,  the transliterations, then they would be translations.
>  The man from my-CR is wearing a heavy gratecoat and it is not clear
>  that he is a human at all, in fact he is a running-program.
>  
>  Does the euclidean algorithm 'understand' division ?

Mu.


