frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (07/30/90)
This is the official CALL FOR VOTES for the creation of the newsgroup
comp.ai.philosophy. As the discussion produced no serious objections and
has now died down, here we go with the vote.
One person objected to the name - saying that talk.ai.philosophy was
more appropriate. I disagree - for various reasons as I have explained
in a posting to news.groups, and as I have received several replies by
E-mail supporting my view, I will not change the name.
VOTING PERIOD:
Begins when you read this and ends at the end of August 21, 1990.
I will post a mid-vote mass acknowledgement, combined with the second
call-for-votes.
VOTING PROCEDURE:
Mail all votes to me, frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason). If this
address does not work, try {mcsun,sunic,uunet}!isgate!rhi.hi.is!frisk.
Please state "Yes, comp.ai.philosophy" or "No, comp.ai.philosophy"
in the Subject: of the message. Votes posted to comp.ai or
news.groups will not be counted. If the header is substantially
different, I can not guarantee that the vote will be counted.
GROUP CHARTER:
Name: comp.ai.philosophy
Purpose: To provide a forum for the discussion of the philosophical
aspect of AI, in particular various thought experiments,
like the Chinese Room and the Turing Test. Discussion on
the nature of "thinking" and "understanding", and whether
computers will ever be able to "think" and "understand"
belongs here as well. This group is created to remove
this discussion from comp.ai.
Moderation: No.
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