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>From: frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams)
Subject: Re: grounding and the entity/environment boundary
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:07:38 GMT
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In article <97918@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
>In article <1992Nov10.020502.116627@Cookie.secapl.com>, frank@Cookie (Frank Adams) writes:
>>There is one way in our technology already greatly outstrips the
>>brain: the speed at which signals propagate.
>
>This, assumes, of course, that signal speed is what's relevant.

No, it only assumes that signal speed *is* relevant.  It all but explicitly
assumes that it is *not* the *only* thing that is relevant.

I think it is pretty obvious that signal speed is relevant.


