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Article 2377 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: harwood@umiacs.umd.edu (David Harwood)
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Subject: Re: AI as the Next Stage in Evolution
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Date: 23 Dec 91 16:04:18 GMT
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In article <14732@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de> simon@fsinfo.math.uni-sb.de (Julia Simon) writes:
>> What do you think of the idea of intelligent machines as the next
>> stage in evolution?
>
>In fact Stanislaw Lem wrote some stories about robot civilizations where robots
>regard themselves as "the next stage in evolution"; i.e. the next after man.
>
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	My memory is fading in middle age - it has been 25-30 years,
but didn't Olaf Stapledon also write about evolution of human beings,
over millenia?


