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Article 7675 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: It is AI when...
Message-ID: <1992Nov17.151136.4873@psych.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1992Nov11.074800.16835JPII@tygra.Michigan.COM> <Stafford-131192111721@stafford.winona.msus.edu> <28221@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:11:36 GMT

In article <28221@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>In article <Stafford-131192111721@stafford.winona.msus.edu> Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford) writes:
>
>>There is an interesting philosophy which asserts that one cannot
>>completely know the tool which is knowing.
>
>I'm saving up statements like this to feed to the first artificial
>intelligence with philosophical pretensions, in the hope that they
>might cause it to explode, or even to believe them!

Yes, but are you prepared to wait that long? :-)

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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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