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>From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
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Subject: Re: The Turing Test is not a Trick
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Date: 21 Jun 92 11:37:34 GMT
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Re: chimpanzee intelligence
The definition of "human-level" intelligence begins to encounter some
difficulties in dealing with bonobos and chimps. Yes, they're not verbal,
but they do have cultures (in the anthropological sense) and, if you
remember, one of the speculations on the transition to modern Homo sapiens
is that it is correlated with language. What this _may_ mean is that
archaic H. sapiens may have been comparable with the chimps in this area.

Re: humor
Our cat seems to enjoy playing practical jokes.

Re: friendship and bonding
This is present to some degree in most mammals.

Re: avian intelligence
The key characteristic for me of human society is chaotic group dynamics.
The anthropoid apes approach that state, but I know of no other social
species that transcends stable dynamics. Binford _speculates_ that H.
neanderthalensis had stable group dynamics. We don't have enough data on
culture to even go that far for archaic H. sapiens and its predecessors
(although the remarkable cultural stability seen prior to the emergence of
modern H. sapiens is suggestive).

Cheers,
-- 
Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com


