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cranes and skyhooks

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 7:32pm.

Interesting question came up in discussion today. Is a construction crane (left below) a good example of Dennett's "crane"? Or is a construction crane actually a skyhook (right below)?

crane skyhook
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