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...There's scorpion logic at work...
...Middle East is moving beyond the stone stage. An "administration official" quoted by the New York Times uses the phrase "August, 1914." Is this tiny place about to reconfirm the twentieth century's logic of disastrous disproportions, whereby a seemingly miniscule cause (a Serb zealot at Sarajevo; an atom of uranium; an obscure housepainter in Vienna) brings on apocalyptic effects...
...Impressed by the logic, the President says, "All right, fellas, climb aboard...
Last year students voted in overwhelming numbers to downsize the council from 90 to 50 members. The rationale was that by making council seats scarcer, races would become more competitive, enhancing the council's overall legitimacy. The logic has proved somewhat correct: This year, all but two upperclass Houses are fielding three or more candidates. Some students have been forced to campaign heavily, many going door-to-door to meet potential constituents...
...humble opinion, the machine (or maybe I should say the distinguished representative of a digital constituency) has passed the test with flying colors, and, as Turing's logic inescapably leads us to conclude, has earned the respect accorded any high-ranking political hopeful. In fact, I have been looking into getting it into the presidential debates but with no luck as yet. We have witnessed a serious step in the evolution of computer consciousness. While we cannot really think of a computer running this "babbler" program as having a fully human-like intelligence, we can consider...