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From: smiles@speedy.uwaterloo.ca (Ilana Jayne Rosenshein)
Subject: Re: critical brain mass for intelligence?
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In article <3ld2jv$giq@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>,
Gene Levinson <gl1@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>Ilana Jayne Rosenshein (smiles@speedy.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
>: Could someone suggest a book that talks about brains/neural nets
>: achieving intelligence after they reach a certain size (x neurons, or
>: x computers)?  I seem to recall reading a short bit about this 
somewhere,
>: but I can't recall where.  Opinions on the subject are welcome as 
well
>: (not like I could stop them, in any case *grin*).
>
>How can there possibly be an objective answer to a subjective, fuzzy 
>concept such as "intelligence", or "achieving intelligence". This 
>strikes me as useless mysticism, unless you very carefully define 
>precisely what you mean by "intelligence" and "achieving intelligence" 
>in this context. I don't think this is a particularly fruitful avenue of 
>inquiry, because it is fraught with semantic ambiguities. 
>
>
>Gene Levinson        *I think, therefore I choose*
>
>
Ok.  What if I said to reach a level of human child intelligence.
More intelligent than a mouse, but not quite as intelligent as
Albert Einstein (or anyone else considered a genius by society).

Ilana
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