On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > I REALLY would like to know more
> > about this aspect. It reminds me of the part of Matrix when they're having
> > dinner...discussing how an AI could possibly know what chicken tastes like.
>
> Suggested readings:
>
> Plato's _Republic_, book 7)
> (specifically the allegory of the cave)
>
> _Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge_, George Berkeley
>
> (after tumbling through these reading Descartes' _Philosophical
> Writings_ might be useful).
>
> (Kierkegaard discussed some issues related to this once, but I can't
> remember in which book)
>
> Others too...
>
> --kevin
>
And on a socialogical side of brain-computer interface, check out
_Oath of Fealty_ by Nivens and Pournelle - interesting novel where
some of the main characters have implants and others don't.
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Thought for today: stale pointer bug n.
Synonym for aliasing bug used
esp. among microcomputer hackers.
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