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Re: Dualism

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From: Barry Merriman
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 04:35
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In article <26534@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
> Many years ago to entertain some schoolkids I wrote a BASIC program
> based on ELIZA which was capable of having apparently sensible
> conversations 

> I take it that you would have insisted that the program's dispelling
> of the illusion was the trickery, and that I had actually succeeded in
> writing a conscious computer program in 60Kbytes of BASIC?

No, probably you demonstrated that Rogerian psychologists are 
not intelligent beings :-)

--
Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet; NeXTMail is welcome)
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