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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: Defining Intelligence
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In article <1992Jul27.035104.22491@dirac.physics.sunysb.edu> charles@dirac.physics.sunysb.edu (Charles Ofria) writes:
>In article <1992Jul23.151338.28804@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>>  Certainly humans are capable of learning, and learning implies some
>>kind of memory.  But I deny that it is a "storage/retrieval" system.

>I have to say that I think that intelligence has a definate need for a
>storage/retrieval system.

  True.  This is why man has invented writing, printing, phonographs,
magnetic tape recorders and computers.  They compensate for his lack
of an internal store/retrieve system.

>                           They way that you (Neil) are talking about
>it seems more like a definate dump of informating into memory and
>similarly a retrieval of it in chunks.

  If this is the way you are interpreting my comments, it is surely a
misinterpretation.  I hope the article I just posted will serve to
clarify the issue.



