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   From: niunian@ymail.com   
      
   On 2015-06-15 12:50 PM, David Johnston wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Too bad you snipped off the rest of my reply. Now, I have no idea what   
   you are talking about.   
      
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