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  1. Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!psych.toronto.edu!christo
  3. From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
  4. Subject: Re: It is AI when...
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.151136.4873@psych.toronto.edu>
  6. Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
  7. References: <1992Nov11.074800.16835JPII@tygra.Michigan.COM> <Stafford-131192111721@stafford.winona.msus.edu> <28221@castle.ed.ac.uk>
  8. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:11:36 GMT
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  11. In article <28221@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
  12. >In article <Stafford-131192111721@stafford.winona.msus.edu> Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford) writes:
  13. >
  14. >>There is an interesting philosophy which asserts that one cannot
  15. >>completely know the tool which is knowing.
  16. >
  17. >I'm saving up statements like this to feed to the first artificial
  18. >intelligence with philosophical pretensions, in the hope that they
  19. >might cause it to explode, or even to believe them!
  20.  
  21. Yes, but are you prepared to wait that long? :-)
  22.  
  23. -- 
  24. Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
  25. Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
  26. University of Toronto
  27. Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1
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