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Re: Emacs psychiatrist
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs psychiatrist |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:11:36 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> I studied Emacs psychiatrist, and I think that behind
> the program there is a vivid person (or persons?).
> Is it so? I simply couldn't understand how one person could
> reply to so many persons, who decided to use the program
> Emacs psychiatrist.
> Is the Emacs psychiatrist a real psychiatrist? Or do you
> work on artificial intelligent and it is a very complex program?
> (I don't think so...) I just started to interest in computers,
> and anyway I found this program is very humorous.
Actually, it's not a psychiatrist (obviously: it doesn't prescribe any
drug), just a psychoanalyst.
You may want to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
> Another problem is that sending mails by Emacs doesn't work on my
> computer. Could you fix it?
Have you asked M-x doctor?
More seriously, we can't help you if you don't give us more information
about what you tried to do and what happened.
Stefan