From newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!torn!utcsri!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert Tue Jun 23 13:21:25 EDT 1992
Article 6332 of comp.ai.philosophy:
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Path: newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!torn!utcsri!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert
>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: The Turing Test is not a Trick
Message-ID: <1992Jun20.150902.30016@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
References: <1992Jun19.155239.8157@oracorp.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1992 15:09:02 GMT
Lines: 19

In article <1992Jun19.155239.8157@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough) writes:

>              Animals are capable of very complex behavior (beavers
>building dams, bees finding their way to fields of flowers) without
>what we would consider intelligence.

  I certainly consider that behavior to be intelligent.  I think we make
a serious mistake when we anthropomorphize to the extent of dismissing
such animal behavior as non-intelligent.

>                                     I think that the kind of
>intelligence that humans seem capable of but animals are not is very
>bound up with our language abilities.

  Undoubtedly true.  But consider the possibility that the types of
behavior humans are capable of, but which we have not been able to
reproduce in computers, might be bound up with the non-linguistic
intelligence of animals, such as demonstrated by beavers building dams.



