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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Intelligence testing
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Date: 1 Jan 92 22:46:32 GMT
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In article <1992Jan1.115429.2331@arizona.edu> bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs) writes:
>Let us, then, avoid the negative emotions aroused by the
>question "Can machines think?" and consider how we would
>go about answering the question "Can the creature from Zeta
>Galactase think?".

 Why not an even easier problem.  How would one go about answering
the questions:

	Do cats think?  [They do, although their thinking is very primitive
			compared to human thinking.  But I am not in a
			position to explain why at the moment].

	Do fish think?  [Most likely not, but I haven't studied fish
			enough to comment].

	Do bees think?  [Tricky, since their biology is so different from
			ours.  The bee dance might suggest they do, but I'll
			pass on this one, due to my lack of knowledge of bees].

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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