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From: bolasov@athena.mit.edu (Benjamin I Olasov)
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Subject: Re: The symbol grounding problem - please start your own newsgroup
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In article <2328@cvl.umd.edu> harwood@cvl.UUCP (David Harwood) writes:
>	I don't want you to quit posting altogether - I would just like 
>you to realize that you are hogging comp.ai with what seems, to me at least,
>to be mostly pompous and unintelligible postings, that have very little to
>do with computer science.
         ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^

This point should not need to be made, but this newsgroup doesn't deal
exclusively with computer science issues per se.  Many important
contributions to AI, after all, have come from outside the field of CS,
as conventionally understood- much of Marvin Minsky's research for example,
is not restricted to CS, and yet has significant implications for AI.

Some of the most challenging and interesting problems of AI are philosophical
in nature.  I frankly don't see why this fact should disturb anyone.

Perhaps if more of us pursued our theoretical models with comparable rigor
to that with which Mr. Harnad pursues his, the balance of topics represented
on comp.ai might shift .....