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From: hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey)
Subject: Re: Penrose's new book
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stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes:

>To make an interesting artificial intelligence, mimicking the brain
>may be no more necessary than a flying machine flapping wings.

Nice point. Some of the arguments against AI seem to be just as you
say. I can imagine something along the lines of; "Airplanes don't
really fly. They just look like they do. Do they flap their wings?
NO! So it's not really flying!"

It doesn't matter what computers can do. If someone wants to deny
that they can be intelligent, they can always up the ante by
coming up with more and more reasons as to why what the computer
does is not "real intelligence". What more (actually less) can
be expected from people who deny that the Turing test has any
validity.

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						-- Mark---
....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925
