From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Computer problems at work
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:26:03 -0400

Keith ponders: "Can an non-conscious entity really apologize?  Isn't being
sorry a state of mind?"

No doubt you're right...but unless you're invoking a spiritual component to
consciousness, one can posit a machine state that mimics being sorry to
whatever degree you like.

Ernest