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>From: bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs)
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Subject: Re: Definition of understanding
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Date: 28 Feb 92 05:42:46 GMT
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In article <1992Feb27.182302.5525@ccu.umanitoba.ca> 
zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum) writes:
>
>Absolutely, If the system only spouts sentences without being able
>to answer questions *in an efficient, understandable way* then
>I would be the first to say that the machine is *NOT* intelligent!
>
  Urk.  Sometimes after severe brain damage a patient
will be in what is called a "locked-in state", in which
they are aware of what is going on and capable of thinking
but unable to respond in any way.  We know about such
states because on occasion patients have emerged from 
them.  But probably many times they do not emerge.  Are
you going to say that such patients are not intelligent?

	-- Bill


