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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: SHRDLU's mind
Message-ID: <1992Apr7.231721.2684@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 23:17:21 GMT
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In article <1992Apr7.211232.6930@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
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>What you "like to think" has little bearing on the question. Surely
>whether SHRDLU, thermostats, and rocks have minds is an empirical
>question.

  A precise, complete and unambiguous definition of "mind" please.  You
obviously have such a definition, since you declare the question to
be "empirical".

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