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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Folk psychology (was: Is Common Sense Explicit or Implicit?
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 18:37:20 GMT
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In article <35tp8k$j07@newsbf01.news.aol.com>,
DrewDalupa <drewdalupa@aol.com> wrote:
>In article <35tefh$g30@mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert@cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
>writes:
>
>>The medical student may need to know the functional roles of
>>these mechanisms.  He does not need to know the beliefs, desires,
>>intentions, etc, of the designer, if there was a designer.
>
>Beliefs, desires, intentions have their origins in the functioning
>of the body.  The historical link between "mere" functioning
>and purposeful behavior are the behavioral instincts.  It is the
>purpose and also the function of the frog's action in watching
>the air around him, to find bugs.
>
Is this then "the purpose and also the function of the robot's (the one
I have described before) action" in moving around and scanning for electrical
outlets, when it's batteries are low, to find a source of electricity to 
replenish its energy source?

>As for your other comments, by confusing the biological
>world (called "nature") with the physical world (also called
>"nature"), you have managed to completely misread the
>rest of my message.
>
Then I have also misread your message. Would you care to explain more clearly
what you meant?

>Edward
>

Andrzej
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Andrzej Pindor                        The foolish reject what they see and 
University of Toronto                 not what they think; the wise reject
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