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>From: bill@nsma.arizona.edu (Bill Skaggs)
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Subject: Re: Defining Intelligence
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Date: 23 Jul 92 21:39:15 GMT
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In-Reply-To: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu's message of 23 Jul 92 15: 13:38 GMT

rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:

   > Intelligence is all about survival.

I hold these truths to be self evident:  trees are very good at
surviving; and trees have no intelligence whatsoever.

	-- Bill

(I could, if necessary, construct a story about a totally paralyzed
man who shows great intelligence in finding a way to commit suicide,
but that would be overkill . . .)


