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>From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Subject: Re: Intelligence is dead
Message-ID: <1992May16.040403.15273@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
Organization: Nanyang Technological University Singapore
References: <1992May13.220801.26052@access.usask.ca>
Date: Sat, 16 May 1992 04:04:03 GMT

In article <1992May13.220801.26052@access.usask.ca> choy@skorpio.usask.ca (choy@skorpio.usask.ca) writes:

: A person is made of matter, chemicals. The person can only do what the
: chemicals dictate. There are no choices. There is no intelligence. A
: person responds to his/her environment, and a computer can be made to
: respond similarly. When we look at the program the computer is running,
: we say it's just an algorithm, there's no intelligence. When we look
: at a person we see just his forced reaction. No intelligence.
: 
: Henry Choy
: choy@cs.usask.ca
: 
: My IQ = 0
That is called intelligence by concensus. Your IQ is not zero also by concencus.
You have discovered a very fundemental concept.
	So, are we intelligent or are we lucky?

--
Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
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