Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!rapaport From: rapaport@sunybcs.UUCP (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: mysticism vs. rationalism Message-ID: <964@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 14:08:20 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.964 Posted: Tue Jan 31 14:08:20 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Feb-84 04:15:03 EST Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 42 The following messages have been received and are being forwarded to net.philosohy for public consumption: >From rocksvax!rochester!seismo!harpo!floyd!akgua!psuvax!bobgian Thu Jan 26 22:55:02 1984 Received: by SEISMO.ARPA (3.342/3.21) id AA01426; 26 Jan 84 15:21:09 EST (Thu) Received: by sen.rochester (3.327.3N) id AA18063; 26 Jan 84 21:43:45 EST (Thu) Message-Id: <8401262021.AA01426@SEISMO.ARPA> Date: 26 Jan 84 15:21:09 EST (Thu) From: rochester!seismo!harpo!floyd!akgua!psuvax!bobgian Subject: Re: AI & philosophy Posted-Date: 26 Jan 84 15:21:09 EST (Thu) Date-Sent: Thu Jan 26 12:04:21 1984\)To: akgua!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!rapaport In-Reply-To: your article <936@sunybcs.UUCP> Apparently-To: rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!rapaport Why ISN'T mysticism "philosophy" and worthy of discussion in an AI/ Philosophy of AI discussion? As I see it, AI (and especially my favorite subtopic, machine learning) is VERY closely related to techniques for improving cognitive ablilities in humans, and mysticism ranks high on that list. Comments?? >From rapaport Tue Jan 31 12:16:46 1984 To: rocksvax!rochester!seismo!harpo!floyd!akgua!psuvax!bobgian Subject: Re: AI & philosophy Cc: colonel If we're going to discuss this, we had better define 'mysticism'. I have in mind, roughly, non-rational theories and procedures. >From colonel Tue Jan 31 13:43:14 1984 To: rapaport Subject: AI & philosophy Cc: rocksvax!rochester!seismo!harpo!floyd!akgua!psuvax!bobgian If we're going to discuss this, we had better define 'rational'. Does it mean Baconian? mechanistic? deterministi