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Re: Lewontin reviews Steven Rose's latest book on the bra
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox
The belief in the possibility of a "thinking computer" is a dualist --
i.e., an idealist -- conception for it assumes that "thinking" is
independent of the biological organism in which it occurs.
I found Hogstadter's _GEB_ a marvellous book, and I still occasionally
browse in it. But strong AI is _not_ a materialist notion.
Carrol
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When was the last time you took or taught a class in philosophy of mind or
computer science? Ditto for metaphysics.
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