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Note to a class on Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

Conscious thoughts. Clear thoughts. Precise thoughts. Sloppy thinking. Unconscious thoughts, and wishes. Muddled thoughts. Half-baked ideas. True thoughts. Incomplete thoughts. Imprecise thoughts. Simple thoughts. Complex thoughts. Thoughts like a shuffle-step-shuffle. Thoughts like a tango, or flamenco, wild, abandoned, and passionate. Thoughts like a waltz, precise and flowing. Inarticulate thoughts, disordered, meandering. Thoughts of beauty, thoughts of pain, prohibited thoughts, required thoughts, thoughts of the heart's desire and of the punishments of the devil. Logical thoughts, thoughts like a treasure hunt, or like a maze. Thinking through a long proof of a mathematical theorem, slowly, carefuly, each step selected carefully to make the following step possible. Thinking through an unproven mathematical theorem, puzzling, selecting, sifting, rejecting, accepting, creating. Thinking dangerously. Thinking differently. Thinking exactly like you're supposed to, exactly wha