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>From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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Subject: SHHHHHHHHHHH! anti-AI experiment in progress, do not disturb!!!
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Date: 18 Dec 91 20:43:59 GMT
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In-reply-to: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)

In article <1991Dec18.173854.3551@spss.com>, markrose@spss (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>What is the experimental program of the anti-AI theorists?  What are their
>specific predictions, confirmable by experiment, which will support their
>theories and confound their adversaries?

The major prediction of the anti-AI theorists is that the AI theorists
will predict and continue to predict that AI will <....> in the next 10
years, and that the predictions will fail miserably, although much of
interest will grow from the attempt to <....>.

Compared to this, the entire enterprise of neuroscience is pretty minor.
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)


