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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Partial consciousness
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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 19:30:48 GMT
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In article <3aiom3$t23@netaxs.com>, Tim Sheridan <sparky@netaxs.com> wrote:
>Jim Balter (jqb@netcom.com) wrote:
>
>: So why are these threads being crossposted to comp.ai.philosophy?  Could folks
>: please show a little *discipline* about where they crosspost?  Thanx.
>: >
>: >>...I will store that away for when I am conscious so I can 
>: >>enjoy it.
>
>I beleive the philosophy of perception is very much related to 
>inteligence..  Any notion of partial perception and the sensing of such 
>states then would seem significant as a fault tolerance control.
>
>Indeed the very notion that such concepts and precepts can energe in the 
>conscious mind may well give insughts as to the proper mechinisims to 
>impart to our artificial friends.

Sigh.  Please note the absense of content here.  The *actual* posting I
responded to, which has been omitted above, had explicitly removed all material
relevant to AI "'cause [the author] kn[e]w almost nothing about it".  c.a.p has
lately been flooded with a bunch of stuff that has little if anything to do
with AI.  I wasn't complaining about discussions of "philosophy of perception"
or "partial consciousness"; just because an article still has that in its
title, it doesn't follow that that's what the article is about.  All I asked
for was *a little discipline*.

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<J Q B>
