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- From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
- Subject: Re: Eating our other world friends & enemies
- Message-ID: <9616@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 07:23:39 GMT
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- mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes:
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- >Well, here we clearly need a definition of intelligent. When we talk
- >about an organism being intelligent we usually mean that its brain
- >level is such that it is a rational, concious, thinking being
- >deserving legal protection.
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- Gee thanks, I'd always wondered what we meant by "intelligent". Thanks for
- filling me in, maybe this should be in the FAQ.
-
-
- <haitus>
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- What the expletive does whether an organism deserves legal protection have
- to do with its intelligence? In Australia, most of the native fauna must
- be HIGHLY intelligent by that definition (since they are protected by the
- law). That is probably the WORST attempt at defining the undefinable I
- have ever seen... except the Cristian Science "the basic eternal quality
- of the divine Mind".
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