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From: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar)
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Subject: Re: Why?
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Date: 23 Sep 88 00:57:42 GMT
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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?"