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Article 6270 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: throop@aurs01.UUCP (Wayne Throop)
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Subject: Re: 'home' is where you find it: Re: Transducers
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> sharder@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Soren Harder)
>>throop@aurs01.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes
>>And I'm certainly not convinced that it matters where these
>>physical squiggles and squoggles came from, any more than it
>>matters what's inside a successful TTT testee.
> It does matter. One thing important for intelligence (I believe) is
> originality; the ability to make your own mind up on things. [...]
> If the mentality of the AI is just dependent on what the programmar
> has foreseen, it is not intelligent.

Well, I agree, of course.  But I see no reason why a
computer-implemented AI process ought to be thought of "dependent on
what the programmer has forseen" in any relevant way.  No more than
human behavior ought to be thought of as "dependent on what the
adaptations present in the genes have forseen". 

So one (as a TT judge) presents the testee with squiggles and squoggles
that the programmer was unlikely to forsee, and see if squiggles more
like

      yyparse: stack overflow

or squoggles more like

      Well, that's very interesting.  I hadn't thought of that before.

come back.  As long as they stay more like the latter than the
former, and continue to make sense and hold up one end of a conversation,
I *still* say doesn't matter where they come from.

If it *does* matter where squiggles and squoggles come from,
they why *doesn't* it matter where the gestures and utterances
of a TTT come from?

Wayne Throop       ...!mcnc!aurgate!throop


