From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2000 - 21:52:05 MST
From: "Anders Sandberg" <asa@nada.kth.se>
> If anybody wants me to write (in english or swedish), I'll gladly do
> it - although my journalist persona of course demands payment (I am
> being coached in economic reality by my friends :-)
Now you're talking! Sounds like you've got some wonderful friends. I'm
probably not the only one who'd like to read your English language
publications, and let us know when you beat Bill Douglass' $20,000 essay.
(As for "future jobs," that's got to be one of the best.)
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
3M TA3
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"If you go back a hundred years," he explains, "one of the biggest
scientific questions was 'what is life?' And one of the most prominent
theories had to do with vitalism--some substance, some thing that is
transmitted from cell to cell, animal to animal, that is the essence of
life. Well, you don't hear anybody talking about vitalism anymore. We've
come far enough to see all the mechanics--we've seen how DNA works, we've
seen all the pieces of the cell, and we don't have need for a hypothesis
like vitalism." So it will go, Sejnowski suspects, with consciousness.
(Phlogiston, incidentally, refers to a theoretical substance that people
once sought in combustible material, thinking it made up the "substance" of
fire.)
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