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AIpanel discussion at AAAI-84, in which I was one of the panelists, appeared in the Fall, 1985 issue of AI Magazine, since due to some communication gap I wasn't aware that the panel discussion was going to be published and I hadn't had a chance to proofread my section of the transcript. I was rather unhappy when I read the section that contained my remarks: Perhaps because of an accent that would not vanish after 20 years in this country, my remarks were, in significant places, embarrassingly garbled by the transcriber ("the most performed paradigmatic change"?, "AI has been the whole expectation of the problem"?, "Knowledge use invalidities has been the cause of misunderstanding"?), and in other places, the crucial "not" had been omitted or added, completely changing my intended meaning, "not" being generally very unforgiving in this regard (where I had said, "The problem is underestimation of the problems of multiplicity of generic knowledge structures," "is" appears as "isn't;" I am pretty sure I didn't say, "I also believe that faster architectures could do the trick," since at that stage in my talk, I was criticizing the belief that what it takes is faster architectures, while crucial epistemic problems remained unsolved). Perhaps it is best to outline the main points of my panel presentation to make clear what I really said (this time without an accent and slowly): 1. AI has already made significant paradigmatic contributions by fostering the idea of cognition as computation. This notion is bound to have far-reaching consequences to philosophy and psychology. This is a weak theory of mind (or mental architecture) in the sense that it says something about organization, but doesn't make any strong commitment about content.