Can a machine know?

[Chris_F]

[quote]
Unfortunately, on more than one occasion, I've had people ask where the exit was when they were almost standing in front of the door -- even looked at it

[Chris_F]

[quote]I dare say any animal (or thing) that engages in superfluous activities is intelligent.

[H]

The mental leap to ascribe pneumonics to this object (the sound "door") is a small one.

On the cellular level, it's a pretty big leap from the mind to potentially ailing lungs, particularly if applied to the door. Unless we're applying heat, whereupon it's just been doused with a lot of hot air, I must deduce that you're speaking of a mechanized, computerized door. If that's the spirit of the matter, then Fozzer's vacuum may soon end its coy ploy and start telling him off.

[machineman9]

hmm i dunno, but a machineman9 like myself knows many things