From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!iy47ab Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: new topics for discussion Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.224 Posted: Fri Jan 7 05:36:29 1983 Received: Sat Jan 8 05:35:12 1983 References: rocheste.368 I don't know about the rest of you. I would like to think that I exist, but, as a perceptive reader pointed out to me a while back, I, too, may be a product of AI (or AS...artificial stupidity) as the case may be. But thinking back to Robert Heinlein's "All You Zombies...", I wonder. Is there a soul? Depends if you are AI or not, I suppose. This seems a rather open-ended question...anyone have any evidence? By the way...just offhand, this is a vote for the AI net. So when are we gonna get it? How do we go about implementing it? Who knows??? True altruism DOES NOT exist. There is always an ulterior motive. The mistake most people make is to assume that that is necessarily a BAD thing. Why should it be? We are all human. Humanity does not necessarily imply altruism...where did we get the idea that it was such a wonderful thing? ...? North Dakota does not exist. Anyone who professes to hail from thereabouts is LYING. ...enough already. Replies, anyone? Lady Arwen of U.C. San Diego