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===Goodbye, faithful [[Mediocre lawyer|legal counsel]]?===
===Goodbye, faithful [[Mediocre lawyer|legal counsel]]?===
More particularly, why [[artificial intelligence]] won’t be sounding the death knell to the legal profession any time soon. Because Computer language isn’t nearly as rich as human language
More particularly, why [[artificial intelligence]] won’t be sounding the death knell to the [[Legal eagle|legal profession]] any time soon. Because Computer language isn’t nearly as rich as human language. It doesn't have any tenses, for one thing. In this spurious fellow’s opinion tenses, narratising as they do a spatio-temporal continuity of existence that we have known since the time of [[David Hume]] cannot be deduced or otherwise justified on logical grounds, is the special sauce of consciousness, self-awareness, and therefore intelligence. If you don’t have a conception of your self as a unitary, thinking thing, though the past, at present and into the future, then you have no need to plan for the future or learn lessons from the past. You can’t narratise.
====No tenses====
 
*machine language deals with past (and future) events in the present tense: Instead of saying:
Machine language deals with past (and future) events without useing tenses. All code is rendered in the present tense: Instead of saying:
:''The computer’s configuration on May 1, 2012 '''''was''''' XYZ''<br>
:''The computer’s configuration on May 1, 2012 '''''was''''' XYZ''<br>
Machine language will typically say:
Machine language will typically say: