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Article 1291 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: map@svl.cdc.com (Mark Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Animal Intelligence vs Human Intelligence
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Date: 12 Nov 91 20:07:34 GMT
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In <5868@tamsun.tamu.edu> access@bambi.tamu.edu (James Goodlett) writes:

>>>In article <37802@shamash.cdc.com> map@svl.cdc.com (Mark Peters) writes:
  
>>>>  Percept - The integration (by an organism's nervous system) of two or 
>>>>            more sensations into a single mental unit. 
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>>>>  Concept - The mental integration of two or more percepts and/or
>>>>            other concepts into a single mental unit.  
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>  I must beg to differ on this part of the discussion...it is erronous to say
>we as humans, can take in just two (re: of two or more sensations into a 
>single mental unit) sensorial signals...  
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But what I wrote doesn't say that we take in just two, it says two or
more.  All this means is that a percept integrates at least two sensations -
one isn't enough (and similarly for concepts integrating at least two
percepts).

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