Subject: Re: Sentience
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 03:03:54 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <FpSdncnUWNj30OfdRVn-uA@speakeasy.net>
Erann Gat <gNOSPAMat@flownet.com> wrote:
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| Don Groves <(. (@ dgroves ccwebster) net))> wrote:
| > David Steuber <david@david-steuber.com> wrote:
| > > When Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am," he was mistaken.
| > > He was wrong at the part where he said, "I think."
| > > Everything else that followed was therefore wrong.
| > 
| > In my book, Richard Feynman said it best:
| > "I think, therefore I think I am."
| 
| I think I think, therefore I think I am.
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Exactly so. The other way around is putting Descartes before the horse.[1]

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| I think.
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Yes, well...


-Rob

[1] Which I first heard from The Vajra Regent Osel Tendzin in 1985
    (though it may not have been new then).

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