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Subject: the long debate of philosophical issues
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Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 13:08:00 EST
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	In response to the idea of splitting the group I think that
in the long-run it would be a bad idea.  But I do support the later
suggestion that the length of these dialogs must be limited.  As we
at GE get things on a limit "bunch" basis, we look through the topics
first before reading all of the bulletins.   Recently it has become
overloaded with long-winded, one-sided, very, very long speeches.
Besides the pure waste of computer time and disk space, the people
arguing are not going to changes their minds, they are just exercising
their fingers.  I am not fluent in the language of this "turing, searle"
debate, but I can see that the points of interest are becoming a bit
on the "off on a tangent" side.  Lets all encourage discussion, but
lets give everyone a chance to bring up interesting and beneficial topics.
Lets not spend the board's entire volume to whether a computer "feels".


	Earl Shaffer, GE, Philadelphia