X-Message-Number: 33404
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:37:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Luke Parrish <>
Subject: Re: Uploading again

"If  it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it may still be just

a decoy. A  page full of words, or a  computer full of files, is not a person, 
or indeed anything at all other than a set of symbols."

"Symbols" which are set up to interact directly with hardware in
a strictly defined logical fashion are indistinguishable from any
other kind of mechanical part. Thus it seems the question Robert
needs to answer is why we should care more about the composition
of the machine than its functionality.

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