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Hubert L. Dreyfus...
Thus the second question-Should a machine think?-answers itself. The question is not in fact the moral problem it at first appears, but purely a practical one. Yes, a machine should think as much as it can, because it can only think in limited terms. Hubert Dreyfus, a philosophy professor at Berkeley, observes that "all aspects of human thought, including nonformal aspects like moods, sensory-motor skills and long-range self-interpretations, are so interrelated that one cannot substitute an abstractable web of explicit beliefs for the whole cloth of our concrete everyday practice." Marianne Moore...
...offering investments in stocks, bonds, money-market securities and even oil ventures. Insurance companies are touting so-called fixed-annuity plans that guarantee predetermined annual payouts during retirement. Many investment firms are encouraging corporations to set up programs that allow employees to invest in IRAs through payroll deductions. The Dreyfus Corp. of New York City, for example, already manages employee IRAs for more than 50 companies, including Warner Communications, RCA Corp. and Esmark...
...does keep us on our toes." In reality, U.S. exporters have little to complain about. Foreign investment in the export of American-grown crops is a well-established tradition. Indeed, among four of the largest merchants of American grain, only Cargill is entirely homegrown. Of the rest, Louis Dreyfus is French-owned, Bunge Corp. has Dutch and Argentine roots, and Continental, now an American company, was originally founded in Belgium...
...government seem eager to impose its own rule over the newly nationalized enterprises. As Mitterrand himself said last week, "These firms and banks should not be appendices of the government. Their autonomy to make decisions and act must be total." The state's role, explained Industry Secretary Pierre Dreyfus, is "to operate as a catalyst for industry, to spur investment and innovation, to oversee the trend of industrial evolution for France...