Posted by Stephen Charchuk on January 05, 1997 at 23:04:52:
In Reply to: Re: Full Skeptics?? posted by grasshopper on January 05, 1997 at 20:55:37:
: David asked the question if I believe 'I think therefore I am', but I
: don't actually know how he is defining 'thinking'...I assume he
: meant a being of independent mind-but I don't know exactly what was meant.
Any creature that can reason is thinking, whether it be organic or mechanical.
: For the purpose of my aurguement I was using thinking to mean just
: that I do in fact make desions independently (to some extent of course)
: rather than simply be robot.
Define independance? Define robot?