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Machines can't use signs meaningfully
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Animals can't use signs as humans do, and animals are essentially machines. So it is implausible that any other machine could learn to use signs as humans do.
René Descartes (1637).
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Date d'entrée (GMT):
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10/23/2007 12:45:00 PM
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