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  1. Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!secapl!Cookie!frank
  3. From: frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams)
  4. Subject: Re: grounding and the entity/environment boundary
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.190738.104494@Cookie.secapl.com>
  6. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:07:38 GMT
  7. References: <1992Oct30.183122.7795@spss.com> <1992Nov10.020502.116627@Cookie.secapl.com> <97918@netnews.upenn.edu>
  8. Organization: Security APL, Inc.
  9. Lines: 11
  10.  
  11. In article <97918@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
  12. >In article <1992Nov10.020502.116627@Cookie.secapl.com>, frank@Cookie (Frank Adams) writes:
  13. >>There is one way in our technology already greatly outstrips the
  14. >>brain: the speed at which signals propagate.
  15. >
  16. >This, assumes, of course, that signal speed is what's relevant.
  17.  
  18. No, it only assumes that signal speed *is* relevant.  It all but explicitly
  19. assumes that it is *not* the *only* thing that is relevant.
  20.  
  21. I think it is pretty obvious that signal speed is relevant.
  22.