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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
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Subject: Re: The Philosophical Foibles of John McCarthy
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In article <1991Dec1.045133.8392@cs.umn.edu> 
lsmith@cs.umn.edu (Lance "Cogsworth" Smith) writes:

>[Assorted discussion of the fall from favor of the term "Artificial 
> Intelligence."]

>Perhaps we should complete the circle and go back to using "Cybernetics". 

Just so those pesky Marxists could again call it "the capitalist whore"?

>-- 
>            Lance Smith                  | "It is a far, far better thing to 
>        (lsmith@cs.umn.edu)              |  have a firm anchor in nonsense 
>     "We gladly feast on those           |  than to put out on the troubled
>        who would subdue us."            |  seas of thought."


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