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>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: SHRDLU's mind
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1992Apr7.002306.9823@news.media.mit.edu> <1992Apr7.211654.7694@psych.toronto.edu> <1992Apr8.073244.29543@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Message-ID: <1992Apr8.155954.10355@psych.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:59:54 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.073244.29543@ccu.umanitoba.ca> zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum) writes:
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>Here you are mistaken. There are such things as small minds
>and big minds. Would you not agree that small animals have
>small minds, insects have even smaller minds. The problem
>you are having is that you want to be able to limit the
>size of a mind (quantize mind?) this cannot be done without
>introducing a whole bunch of other problems, such as what is
>the smallest mind, etc..
>-- 
 
It seems you haven't been paying close attention. The question is not
whether there are "small" anbd "big" minds. The question is whether
an answers to that question has any bearing whatsoever on the
question of whether something can be said to have a mind at all.
I have argued that it does not. A small mind is just as much a mind
as a big mind is.


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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
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