>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 15:39:20 PST
>Reply-To: "Thomas M. Alexander" <talex who-is-at SIU.EDU>
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>From: "Thomas M. Alexander" <talex who-is-at SIU.EDU>
>Subject: brains, computers, persons
>To: Multiple recipients of list DEWEY-L
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>Dewey-L,
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>
> Sinful I know to demand attention more than once, but I have to
>share this. Iasked a wise colleague, Genie Gatens-Robinson (a better Deweyan
>than I am, by far, and a real poet) what her reaction was to the mind-is-a-
>brain-is-a-computer. She said, "I'll worry about that when computers have
>childhood." Need anything further be said? Only Deweyans would understand
>the elegance of this remark.
>
> Tom A
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>Thomas M. Alexander
>Department of Philosophy
>Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
>talex who-is-at siu.edu
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>
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