Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 16:39:07 03/13/01
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Solid arguments, pro or con, are not possible without a more clear understanding and definition of what intelligence is, to begin with. And I do not believe there is such a thing, yet. In any case my first impression is that intelligence has to do with a capacity to change the parameters of your way of grasping the world and fast enough, not just with the presence of some fast calculation algorythm. Do you think, by example, that the people capable of calculating in a second the root square of 23456575757 is specially smart? I don't think son. Neither I believe as specially smart those people with some special attitude to develop logical arguments. When you read Middle Age logicians of the european universities and you see how narrow minded they were with all his aristotelic logical machine to oppose everything not fitted with the church thought, you see no intelligence but learned and clear-cut, well wrded stupidity. Flexibility seems to be a clue, but I am not sure. Only I am sure that a machine making calculations according to a fixed set of rules cannot be considered intelligent. Nevertheless, I am not sure of this either... Fernando
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