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From: minsky@ml.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Subject: Re: consciousness
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slavins@entergrp.demon.co.uk (Simon Slavin) writes:

>Current ideas seem to indicate that intelligence is a 'yes/no' thing
>rather than a scale.  Just like 'consciousness'.

Just as 'memory' was once seen as a single thing, and the brain was
believed to cool the blood, and the halves of the brain did that
yin-yang thing, and, well, what can one say of such foolishness?

