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   From: David@block.net   
      
   On 6/15/2015 8:14 AM, niunian wrote:   
      
   >>>> In traditional science, there was a term used to describe   
   >>>> intelligence. It's called the ghost. And there were scientists who   
   >>>> were committed to be the ghost chasers. Nowadays, that term is   
   >>>> conveniently forgotten so that science can take on the project called   
   >>>> the artificial intelligence when it should have been called the   
   >>>> artificial ghost according to the tradition. Can you see the irony all   
   >>>> you artificial ghost chasers and researchers out there?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> :-)   
   >>>   
   >>> You have to consider that well over 50% of modern liberals are   
   >>> functionally illiterate and below average intelligence of their own   
   >>> choice.   
   >>   
   >> Does he?  The term was not "conveniently forgotten".  It was never used   
   >> in that way.  There was never a point at which "traditional" science   
   >> called intelligence "the ghost".  The philosopher Gilbert Ryle coined   
   >> the expression "ghost in the machine" to mock Descartes concept of   
   >> mind-body dualism. It was a turn of phrase that cyberpunk science   
   >> fiction authors found inspirational.  But actual scientists?  No.   
   >   
   > Of course not.   
      
   Which means of course that you weren't telling the truth.   
      
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