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Article 6511 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Defining Intelligence
Message-ID: <1992Jul25.032827.18362@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 92 03:28:27 GMT
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In article <4474@rosie.NeXT.COM> paulking@next.com (Paul King) writes:
>rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>> justin.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu writes:
>> >        I. Intelligence requires a memory storage/retrieval system.

>>   Certainly humans are capable of learning, and learning implies some
>> kind of memory.  But I deny that it is a "storage/retrieval" system.

>Could we instead say that "intelligence requires the ability to use
>information from past experience to influence behavior"?

  I have no serious argument with this.  It sounds like a good working
definition of memory.


