Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 22:49:12 03/13/01
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Dear Fernando, Amen Brother! Intelligence in higher vertebrates requires consciousness. I think that even ants and bugs have consciousness. Why are we not intelligent enough to include consciousness in silicon based computers? Maybe we can't. Maybe there is a God. Hmm, I'm beginning to sound like those middle age logicians. Tim "The Pope" Frohlick On March 13, 2001 at 19:39:07, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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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