[comp.ai.digest] ailist discussion of "flawed minds"

MEANS@gmr.COM ("Linda G. Means") (10/12/87)

In AIList V5 #233,
ihnp4!homxb!houdi!marty1@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (M.BRILLIANT)
writes:

   >Factually, we know the mind is flawed because we observe that 
   >it does not do what we expect of it.

Okay, let's take as given that the human mind is flawed.
If that judgment is the result of reasoning by a human mind 
(i.e. a flawed mind), how can we take the judgment to be true?  
Seems not unlike the paradox which arises from the statement, 
"Everything I say is a lie".

Linda G. Means
GM Research Laboratories
means%gmr.com@relay.cs.net


  [Ah, but that's a far cry from "Some things I say are lies."  -- KIL]