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From: chenness@cln.etc.bc.ca (CRAIG HENNESSEY)
Subject: The only true AI, in my opinion
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I think that the only way we can create an intellegence at least equal to 
that of a human would be the following:

1) It would have to remeber every single stimulus on every single 
receptical of every single nerve on it's being (to equivelent for humans 
is that of nerve endings olfactory, eye rods and stems (or whatever their 
called), as well as every emotion felt in response to these stimuli)

2) It would have to be able to refere to this extremely large database 
and match up all the similiar stimuli, and then act accordingly (eg, at 
some point in it's life it finds out what a snowball, and records all the 
stimuli that occured to it at that point, then later in life, upon 
finding another snowball, it would know it is a snow ball because it 
matched it to the stimuli from before, eg. it's white, cold, roundish, 
solid when cold, liquid when hot)

Hmm... of course it would have to be told what everything was once to 
know what it is a second time... and it wouldn't really 'do' anything 
origonal.. hmm.. ah well, need a random thought generator i suppose ah 
well.. this AI stuff is harder than I thought..

