Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!elroy!aero!venera.isi.edu!smoliar From: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Why? Message-ID: <6356@venera.isi.edu> Date: 23 Sep 88 00:57:42 GMT References: <6823@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Sender: news@venera.isi.edu Reply-To: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu.UUCP (Stephen Smoliar) Organization: USC-Information Sciences Institute Lines: 10 In article <6823@uwmcsd1.UUCP> markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes: > Human >curiosity (about the nature of our mind) is one thing, but even that has to be >directed toward a pressing need -- so the question remains just what the >pressing need is. My strongest urge is to respond to this statement in your own fashion: Why? Do you not admit the possibility that the human mind is inclined to pose difficult problems for itself WITHOUT that "pressing need?"