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>From: bill@nsma.arizona.edu (Bill Skaggs)
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Subject: Re: Defining intelligence
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Date: 17 Jul 92 03:17:12 GMT
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In-Reply-To: sanelson@milton.u.washington.edu's message of 15 Jul 92 23: 33:44 GMT

sanelson@milton.u.washington.edu (S. A. Nelson) writes:

   I'm with the Turing-Test crowd in that I think the closest thing 
   we have to defining "X is intelligent" is "X behaves like me."

If this were true, the sentence "X is far more intelligent than any
living human" would seem absurd to us. (We would interpret it as
"X behaves far more like me than any living human".)  It doesn't seem
absurd to me -- it seems quite correct to say that God, as described
in the New Testament, is far more intelligent than any living human.
(God in the Old Testament I'm not so sure about.)

	-- Bill


