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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: Terrible. Close. Mind.
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:13:20 GMT
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- In <1er8g6INN2sk@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- ># Brian Kendig
- >#> Frank O'Dwyer
- >#># Brian again
- >#>#the ability to conceive of indirect solutions to
- >#>#problems, the ability to use language, and so forth.
- >#>
- >#>These are measures of intelligence, not humanity. There are lots of people
- >#>who can't do either of the things you mention to any useful degree, and some
- >#>of them are my colleagues :-)
- >#
- >#I disagree. I've never heard of anyone whom I would call a 'person'
- >#who wasn't capable of either of these two things.
- >
- >A person on a life support system might not be expected to do these things.
-
- You wouldn't expect them to do it, but they have the capability.
-
- >Don't you think it's a little unreasonable to expect a foetus to jump through
- >intellectual hoops, when it lacks the experience and/or hardware needed
- ========
- Bingo - it can't, because it lacks the hardware. That's very different
- from a person who has the hardware, and the capability, but is not able
- to exercise that capability at the moment (whether because they're asleep,
- comatose, or whatever).
- --
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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