DARK SUCKERS

Tom Scott (blowfish.IMA.ISC.COM!tscott%rutgers.UUCP@media-lab.media.mit.edu)
Fri, 12 Aug 88 12:38:14 EDT

< The human refused to accept the undeniable logic of the argument,
< which leads me to doubt the intelligence of a race which is capable
< of employing DARK SUCKERS, but not of understanding the principles
< behind them.

This is the crux of the problem. Immanuel Kant attempted to deal with
it in the Critique, but to no avail. See "Expert Database Systems: A
Unified Story" (Scott & Scott 1987, section 4) and "Knowledge Is
Structured in Consciousness" (Scott & Scott 1986, appendix 2) for an
elaboration of the problem as it arises when using human
"intelligence" as the design model for knowledge systems.

I should also mention that Kant is the author of "Die Gluhbirne Als
Dunkelheitsauger". He had a prototype knowledge system in his cellar
in Koenigsberg; the power source was of course DARK SUCKERS.