From: Richard Loosemore (rpwl@lightlink.com)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2006 - 07:24:28 MST
> AI as we discuss it here is so far beyond what
> people were thinking about 400 years ago that it is
> as useless to speculate about the response to it
> as it is to speculate about how many angels (who
> have no physical form) can fit on the point of a
> pin (which has no dimension). [That's the proper
> form that most people misstate as "how many angels
> can dance on the head of a pin"].
>
> DRN
Hey, no problem: are the angels standing side by side, or are they
arranged in ranks? Answer is aleph null if the former, aleph one if the
latter.
I am assuming that angels, being discrete, are enumerable.
Or have I got my alephs in a twist?
;-)
Richard Loosemore
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