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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Minsky's new article (was: Roger Penrose's new book)
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In article <jqbCzK9Hn.E45@netcom.com> jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter) writes:
>In article <CzFoDz.84L@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
>Jeff Dalton <jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>In article <1994Nov7.142110.22111@unix.brighton.ac.uk> mjs14@unix.brighton.ac.uk (shute) writes:
>>
>>>(All of this, of course, would have to be reviewed if the dualists turn
>>>out to have other future cards to play :-)
>>
>>Do you actually think that every critic/skeptic of Minsky or AI
>>is a dualist?
>>
>>Does anyone else think they're all dualists?
>>
>>If so, that would explain why their views are always treated with
>>such contempt.
>
>Why do you always say *always*, Jeff? 

Hyperbole, perhaps.

>Why are you always so contemptuous of critics of Penrose et. al?  

Suppose I were.  Would that make it fine for them to do the same?

>     Oh, maybe you aren't always.  And maybe you
>sometimes express in detail exactly where your contempt (or disagreement)
>comes from.

My disagreement, when it exists, is because I don't think they
have good arguments.

>And perhaps something similar is true of those critics.

Maybe so.  But there's been little sign of it lately.

>Perhaps you can sense why I think your tone here, which you so often express,
>deserves contempt.

Not in a way that does you any credit.

BTW, why do you want to counter me this way rather than with sweetness
and light?  Or why not just put me in your kill file?  You never seem
to think I have anything of value to say, so why not?

-- jeff
