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>From: reh@next08pg2.wam.umd.edu (Richard Huddleston)
Subject: Re: Defining other intelligence out of existence
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[...endless arguments about what intelligence is, more or less centered
    around the ability to solve problems...]

How about a much easier approach to this question, only slightly  
tongue-in-cheek:

Intelligence is the ability to be wrong, The more intelligent an organism  
or species is, the more capable it is of being wrong, and the more likely  
it is that the organism or species is doing something that it can be wrong  
about.

--
Richard Huddleston     //    reh@wam.umd.edu     //      Personal opinions
 
Maybe we reincarnate until we get a great job, and that's what Nirvana is.



