Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:36:52 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Computer problems at work

> elilley at mindspring.com 6/21/2005 9:26:03 AM >>>
>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.

Maybe it could sing "Who's sorry now" in the voice of Alan Turing?  Or
Hal 9000?

mjw

>
>Ernest
>