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From: rapaport@sunybcs.UUCP (William J. Rapaport)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: mysticism vs. rationalism
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Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 14:08:20 EST
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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