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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Arguments against Machine Intelligence
Message-ID: <1991Nov28.131646.11219@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 91 13:16:46 GMT
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In article <288@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>If every property of a neuron is programmable, then so is intelligence.

 You are jumping to the conclusion that intelligence is purely a property of
neurons.

 That's a pretty big leap.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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