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December 1999, Week 2

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Roy Buzdor <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:40:47 -0500
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Tom Hula wrote:
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> Roy Brown wrote:
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> > But interestingly, the 'big' questions which you ask above
> > are actually scientific ones, and have (or are capable of
> > having) scientific answers.
> >
> > >Where did life come from originally

...

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> ...(I often idly speculate - if an HP3000 was intelligent,
> had a system crash and a warm reboot, would it *know* it
> had failed, or would its memories look like an unbroken
> run of uptime?)

Kind of reminds me of the religion arguments from _Tron_ ...
"Do you believe in the 'User'"?

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