Flying, to a fair extent, I point out, is a conditioned response being trained into the human. It is not much thinking, though at times thinking is necessary; it is more training to react rapidly and correctly, both mentally and physically, to unforeseen emergencies. It seems to me that for this sort of training, where there is a conditioned response to be learned, machines can do a very good job. It happens as a child I learned fencing. In a duel there is no time for local thinking; you must make a rapid conditioned response. There is indeed a large overall planning of a duel, but moment to
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