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>From: monaghan@milton.u.washington.edu (Tracy Monaghan)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Daniel Dennett
Message-ID: <1991Nov22.185012.21228@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 91 18:50:12 GMT
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In article <39586@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
>In article <DAVIDMC.91Nov21100802@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> davidmc@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (davidmc) writes:
>>zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>>   >I believe that the very notion of "Man a Machine" is anti-humanistic both
>>   >in its intrinsic nature, and in its historical development (the guillotine,
>>   >labor camps, terrorist state).
>>
>>Is a non-anthropocentric theory necessarily anti-humanistic?
>>(I don't think so.)
>
>But a machine-centered view is. For example,  some of the hopes of
>AI types include development of a machine that will supersede humans.
>If that ain't anti-humanistic, I don't know what is.

If a backhoe can dig faster than a human, is it anti-humanistic?
If a car/train/plane travels faster than human, is it anti-humanistic?
If an automated loom can weave faster than a human, is it anit-humanistic?

Are you a Luddite?


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Cheers,                  | There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
                         | Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Tracy                    |                       -- Hamlet 1:5
monaghan@u.washington.edu|                       by William Shakespeare


