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∂AIL Mr. Hubert E. Feichtlbauer↓4601 North Park Ave, Apt. 611
↓Chevy Chase, Md. 20015∞

Dear Mr. Feichtlbauer:

	Thank you for your interest in the ideas expressed in my
review of Weizenbaum's book.  Here is a try at answering your
questions:

	1. I must admit that my impression here is a bit subjective
though based on more than 10 visits to the Soviet Union since 1965.
Here is some anecdotal evidence.  While in the Soviet Union, I was
invited to give a lecture at the Moscow Institute of Problems of Control.
I offered the title %2Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint
of Artificial Intelligence%1, but my host said that the word
"philosophical" might lead to difficulties and retitled the lecture
something like %2Recent work on artificial intelligence at Stanford%1
but when he introduced me, announced the original title to the audience
with the remark that he had changed it because otherwise "the wrong
people would come to the lecture".

	More indicative than that, in the last few years there have
been Russian theoretical papers on AI with extensive references to
recent Western philosophical literature, especially the so-called
%2analytic philosophy%1.  These references are not the usual %2philosophy
of science%1 references which can be excised without much damage to
the technical content of the paper but rather are so imbedded in
the basic framework of the paper that it is clear that the
analytic philosophy cannot be suppressed without jeopardizing the
ability to solve scientific and engineering problems.  I enclose
two papers that illustrate how technology and philosophy
are becoming closely linked.

	2. I enclose a paper on home terminals.

	3. This question is the hardest.  The option most likely to be attractive
seems to be some kind of merger of human and artificial intelligence.
Another possibility is the ability to move one's personality into a machine
and thus achieve some kind of immortality.
Let me emphasize that when people actually
face these options, they will have little interest in what we, who
do not face them, would think they should do.  Likewise we rarely ponder
what Cro-Magnon man would think we should do about higher education.

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