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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Are we scaled-up slug-brains or not? (was "In the news...")
Message-ID: <1991Dec21.040643.22462@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 91 04:06:43 GMT
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In article <45307@mimsy.umd.edu> harwood@umiacs.umd.edu (David Harwood) writes:

>If 7 people tell me (by email) they seriously want me to investigate
>this issue: Are we slug-brains or are we not? Then I will make a report
>to this newsgroup, with lengthy documentation of all books and journal

 Save your efforts.

 There is no way you could possibly make this determination.  Too little is
known about the real working principles of human brains and of slug brains
to know how to recognize whether they are based on the same principle.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940


