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>From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
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Subject: Re: Arguments against Machine Intelligence
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Date: 28 Nov 91 20:02:05 GMT
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In article <288@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>This also is my main problem with the 'anti-AI' crowd.  I have yet to see
>any properly defined, verifiable definitions of some property possessed by
>neurons that is not, or cannot, be programmed into a digital computer.
>
>If every property of a neuron is programmable, then so is intelligence.

This reasoning will not get you very far. Note, you are assuming that
intelligence is a property of neurons in isolation, and that neurons can
be "programmed". Not very many people will argue that brains cannot
be constructed from neurons.  Nor that, in principle, one could not build a
thinking entity from molecules. But,  it is not at all clear that a mind
is simply a program running on a soggy version of a digital computer. 





