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Subject: Re: Computer Chess Programs & Intelligence

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 09:11:41 03/14/01

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Well, Bruce, your answer widens the scope of the debate. To begin with, the
concept of intelligence as something proper of an entity capable of intelligent
behaviour does not solve the problem as much intelligence as such is not clearly
stated first. Sounds a little bit like a circular reasonning. Nevertheless I
concur with the sheer fact that all this is a matter of behaviour in certain
frames of reference. Probably a way to approach the problem is, then, to reject
from the beginning the idea of intelligence as some sustantive, specific entity
we can define in a sentence. Maybe it is more like a cluster of certain
behavioral abilities in different levels and empirical ocasions. In that case
even such a mechanical thing as to remember is fundamental. And certainly the
capacity to calculate accurately inside a system of rules is, as well, a kind of
intelligence. And the highest one would be the creative endeavour of the so
called genuses that change the entire frame of rererence. If this is so, then,
yes, we could say program show intelligence in some level.
Cheers
Fernando



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