Re: Neural netss (was Re: death of the mind.)

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:46:32 GMT

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:47:56 +0100, David Longley
<David@longley.demon.co.uk> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>In article <41546748.1463442@netnews.att.net>, Lester Zick
><lesterDELzick@worldnet.att.net> writes

[. . .]

>>Did you mean to answer my question, David, or merely babble on
>>evasively the way evolution has conditioned you to behave?
>>
>
>We're all a product of our genetic and environmental histories Lester.

Sure, David. That's hardly the issue. Some of us are also products of
under achievement, neurotic envy, and deliberate malice. It's called
whining.
 
>What some of us try to do is share the more productive consequences of
>those histories with others. Some of us *do* appreciate that we are
>animals, and as creatures of our environments (cultures) we also
>appreciate that there are benefits to be shared from how we have been
>trained.
>
>At times, you've shown brief moments of lucidity. You should work on
>those, trying to let others help you to increase their frequency at the
>expense of the metaphysics and other forms of abuse which usually
>characterise so many of your posts (and I suspect your behaviour
>elsewhere).

David, all you want is to horn in on subjects in which you have no
expertise or competence. I fully expect any day now for Glen to
announce that differences and differences between differences etc.
are the missing link in materialism and behaviorist psychological
explanations.

Regards - Lester

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