Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!gilbert From: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: The Social Construction of Reality Message-ID: <1303@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Date: 30 May 88 12:01:44 GMT References: <4134@super.upenn.edu> <3200014@uiucdcsm> <1484@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1157@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <218@proxftl.UUCP> Reply-To: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) Organization: Comp Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland Lines: 24 In article <218@proxftl.UUCP> bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes: >If you have any questions about the game the consensus reality >freaks are playing, you can send me e-mail. Caught out at last! Mail this CIA address for details of the Marxist attempt to undermine the All-American AI net. Digest no relativist epistemologies without clearance from this mailbox. All is revealed by Nancy Reagan's astrologer, a secondhand version of BACON (St. Francis to the scientists) Come on T. Willy, you just don't like social constructs that's all. :-) Of course there's a resistance in the physical world to any old social construct. But blow me, aren't people different? Take Kant, a German while alive but a horse when dead. Guilty under the Laws of Physics. Why, even digestability seems to be a social construct, just look at all that anti-americanism over the good old US hamburger. And as for language, well, that's just got no respect at all for the laws of physics. Now wonder those damned commies get to twist the true All-American meaning out of words. Remember. Don't go out at night without positivism in your pocket. Report all subcultural tendencies to the appropriate authority. -- Gilbert Cockton, Department of Computing Science, The University, Glasgow gilbert@uk.ac.glasgow.cs!ukc!glasgow!gilbert The proper object of the study of humanity is humans, not machines