From: CYMM (cymm@trinidad.net)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 19:02:04 MDT
CURT ADAMS SAID: "...Many, many, people will be profoundly motivated to
believe that thinking machines aren't "really" thinking and that they do not
deserve human-like rights. I predict they will believe what they want to
believe..."
CYMM SAYS: Dead right Curt. As proof of your concept, I cite humans'
relationships with other mammals, up to, and including, their blood-brother
the Chimpanzee.
There are people who will swear on a stack of holy books that dogs, say,
cannot think, or aren't conscious. Just as I swear on a stack of old
National Enquirers that I'm the only truly conscious entity in the Universe.
The rest of you guys are just faking it.
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