Talk:Edmund Blair Bolles

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This page had misrepresentations of what computers are capable of, and had various of Bolles' opinions phrased as fact.

I edited in several places to show statements explicitly as his opinion, and deleted an apparently un-fixable sentence, similarly with a paragraph that was both un-fixable and also original research.

For the record, regardless of what Bolles may think, computers are capable of more than just the classic symbolic manipulation of symbols such as TABLE, and it is possible to "ground" AI in sensory perception, so claiming otherwise is simply counter-factual -- it was thus *essential* to rephrase such claims as Bolles' opinions, not fact.

It is also a horrid straw man to cast the subject as one that can only be addressed as a schism between Bolles' definition of a "humanist" and his definition of a "physicalist"; there are many other ways of addressing it that have been published over the years/decades/centuries, and IMHO, Bolles' definitions and polar arguments are naive (as represented on this page), so again it was *essential* to phrase such things as Bolles' view, not as facts.

Note that I did not argue with his views, I merely fixed the phrasings to show that it was his opinion.

I am not at all sure that his views are accurately represented, even at that.

Dougmerritt (talk) 15:50, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

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