On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:27:01PM -0400, Roger Clough wrote:
> Hi Russell Standish
>
> I should stay away from discussing bacteria. Brownian motion and
> chemical actions could in fact make intelligence ("free" choice-making)
> unnecessary, as you may have suggested.
>
>
Why avoid the topic? By studying these sorts of "edge cases", we get a
clearer idea of what we mean by various things.
Although edge case hardly describes the situation. The dominant
lifeform on this planet is bacteria.
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