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>From: smoliar@hilbert.iss.nus.sg (stephen smoliar)
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Summary: on the relevance of Heidegger to artificial intelligence
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Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1991 01:31:23 GMT

In article <15110@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>
>For myself, I have always found Heidegger's account of how one's
>relationship to and manner of thinking about a device changes, as the
>device ceases to work properly, to fit very interestingly with my
>experience of mending complex broken devices. By "interestingly" I
>mean that reading Heidegger gives me ideas about to how to contruct an
>articifial machine capable of diagnosing and repairing broken
>machinery. It is also true that most of my colleagues find Heidegger
>impenetrable or irrelevant, so I refrain from making a general
>recommendation.

Last March I received a draft of a paper from Beth Preston, who is in both the
Department of Philosophy and the Artificial Intelligence Program at the
University of Georgia.  At the time, the title of the paper was "Heidegger
and Artificial Intelligence."  Since it was a draft, I do not feel that I
am in a position to quote from it;  and I am curious as to whether or not
it has now been published.  I read it on my second flight to Singapore, and
found it an excellent piece of work.  She DOES discuss those individuals whom
Chris declined to name (but I had already blurted out) and does so quite
sensibly (in my own humble opinion).
-- 
Stephen W. Smoliar; Institute of Systems Science
National University of Singapore; Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Kent Ridge, SINGAPORE 0511
Internet:  smoliar@iss.nus.sg


