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From: bpvanstr@yoho.uwaterloo.ca (Brian Van Straalen)
Subject: Re: OK, is it SENTIENT?
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>It depends on what you define as alive. 
>
>Maybe the original question should have been whether or not the
>internet will become sentient. 


Maybe this question is no longer relevant to this newsgroup.  This
group isn't about artificial intelligence (despite it's misplacement
in the news hierarchy), it's about ALIFE.

We have thrashed this issue a dozen times in this group.  People
always want to start INTELLIGENCE threads here, bogging the group
down in other stuff.

Life does not imply intelligence: Intelligence does not imply life.

i.e., snails are alive, but....

      neural nets can be intelligent, but .....


There are other newsgroups for discussing whether the internet is
sentient, or intelligent (which are about as hard to define as
life is I might add).


	Brian Van Straalen


