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DIARY: April 28, 1996 11:09 PM Sunday; Rod Welch

Bill Moyer interviwed Houston Smith on religion.

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Pictures, Language, Writing
Thinking, Memory, biology limits
Human Memory, Intuition, Poetry, Harmony, Creativity
Knowledge v. Information, Learning, Continual
Religion, Artificial Intelligence
Data, Common Sense, Intuition, Learning
Can Machine's Think, Robert Wright
Time Article, Can Machines Think
Consciousness

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1812 - Summary/Objective
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181301 - Followed up work at ref SDS 16 line 69, ref SDS 10 line 48, 
181302 - SDS 9 line 47, reviewed an article in 960325 issue of Time magazine,
181303 - similar to Newsweek article in relation to work on defining
181304 - Communication Metrics at ref SDS 13 line 80, relative to cognitive
181305 - science begun with Improbable Machine at ref SDS 1 line 75, and
181306 - recently with Tom Landauer's paper, Plato's Paper on congitive
181307 - science.
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181701 - He uses the word transcendence.  He says life is religiously ambigous
181702 - and we are striving
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181704 - He noted that plants have a tendancy to lean toward the light.  What
181705 - does human life lean toward?  He feels it leans toward religion, which
181706 - is the light of life, or the light of the unknown.
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181708 - He notes that the physical world is horzontal.  Religion is the
181709 - science of value, worth which is a vertical axis.
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181711 - He is describes "religion" as being like a cow.  It occassionally
181712 - kicks but it gives milk.  This meant is to address the conflicts that
181713 - have arisen over various competing religious ideologies.
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181715 - He says science is about distance and religion is about values.
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