Anna Simpson anna@moglit.demon.co.uk wrote:

At 18:15 04/12/01 +0000, you wrote:

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In fact, it is hard to think of anything it did that could not be the result of a programme rather than consciousness.

Of course, considering the canonical existance of androids as sophisticated as Vinnie and Avalon, the same could be said of any of the rest of the crew.

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cheers Steve Rogerson

love Anna

Isn't this a variant of Turing's test (about apparent sentience of computers)?

Jacqui