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>From: redgers@sig.ee.ic.ac.uk (Adrian Redgers)
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Subject: Re: Definitions (Intelligence)
Summary: If a machine can do it, it doesn't require intelligence
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aiss@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Sven Suska) asks: >What is Intelligence?
millerjx@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Justin W. Miller) defines it directly and 
self-referentially:
>..the 'knowledge of information common to those who are DOING the defining.'

What am I bid for the negative definition in the summary?

Corollaries:     
    Artificial Intelligence is a contradiction in terms. [:-(
    There is less intelligence in the world every year   {:-o   

Some petrol for the flames:
    Looks like we have a mind vs. body, free-will vs. causality,
    meaning vs. syntax problem.  Sound familiar?  I, a dualist, 
    propose that we each have an iota of Buddha Nature (Intelligence) 
    sitting in our cerebral cortex, and when we die it goes back into 
    the cosmic bucket.  

    Can a machine have Buddha Nature?  Standard answer is Mu 
    (Japanese for "don't ask").  Either every switch - change of state 
    with *time* - has a bit of BN, but can't express it until it has 
    the language facility, or there is a threshold of complexity above 
    which a set of switches 'wakes up'.

/*       And, as with Gods and men, the sheep remain inside their pen, 
               Though many times they've seen the way to leave...     
Adrian Redgers : redgers@sig.ee.ic.ac.uk : Neural Systems Lab, Elec. Eng.,
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