From: gall@umanitoba.ca (Norman R. Gall)
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 12:28:54 -0600
Organization: University of Manitoba Philosophy

In article , smisch@tiac.not
(samson.fischkind) wrote:

>What say the cogs, if you substitute "materialized" for "mechanized" in
>that sentence? Just build a human zygote from the atom up, put it in an
>Acme Instant Incubator and wait. It's not the sort of intelligent
>"machine" an AI-er would like to build, but it's artificial and it's
>intelligent. QED.

The human that you built would be as artificial as the light form a light
bulb is artifical... and just as philosophically interesting.

Which I think, I hope, was your point.

Norm Gall

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