From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 15:01:57 MST
John Clark wrote:
>
> John Grigg <starman2100@lycos.com> Wrote:
>
> >Damien Broderick shared with the list how author Brian Aldiss in the original
> >story had the android boy as a very sophisticated program to in a sense
> >fool" humans into thinking it was truly sentient and had emotions.
>
> Well then this is one of those very rare occasions (Godfather, The Forbin Project)
> where the movie is better than the book. The idea that a machine can be intelligent
> but not emotional is a well worn cliche;
Hell, I do it all the time (and the reverse as well... sad to say).
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