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What Computers Could Never Do

An Existential Phenomenological Critique of the Program of Artificial Intelligence

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Wait, E.C. (2006). What Computers Could Never Do. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos. Book Four. Analecta Husserliana, vol 91. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3737-6_8

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