Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 18:02:23 01/28/98
Sprry for the long title, but it seems that at least part of the discussion about this issue just happens becauise a confussion between human mind with human intelligence andf human intelligence with intelligence as such. Human mind is a complex design where many levels of adaptative capacities, beginning with sensorial ones, are interrelated in such a complex way -including emotions- that in fact human intelligence cannot be understioood without them. Thee recent book Descarte's error by Mr Antonio R. Damasio show convincingly that. Nevwerthelles, wwhat cannot be separated in the human domain does not means that cannot be separated in any other domain. Intelligence is just a kind of behaviour we can define as a capacity to solve adaptative problems, that is, in academic exopression, to solve problems. That's all. Of course from the point of view of human experuience of intelligence, any other form is a kind of imitation, something artificial, specially if we have designed it. But intelligence is intelligence, no matter if: a) Operates separated or united to other functions B) if operates in an organic neural network or a sintetic one C) if it is of high or low level intelligence D) if his fdomain is wide or narrow. Also, on the ground of a value definition, we have the right to define intelligence only to anything that is equal to human intelligence, but that kind of reasonning does not go to anywhere, is not scientific as much does not let room for further discussion. I think chess programs are Intelligent devices, artificial if you wish to call that way, but in any sense intelligent, even if they are not VERY intelligent beyond a very narrow scope. And why ther are son? becasue they solve not only problems, but different problems. Inside the chess domain, each posiition is a different problem. To think they are not because they operates on the basis of rules is like to say we are not intelligent because we operate on the ground of aristotelian logic rules, Descartes rules, scientific method rules and so on.
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