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Subject: Re: Computer Chess Programs & Intelligence

Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes

Date: 05:42:46 03/15/01

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On March 14, 2001 at 12:11:41, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>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

The act of remembering is NOT mechanical,it is an ACTIVE process,as Piaget
showed conclusively IMO. Please see:
   http://dcn.davis.ca.us/~btcarrol/skeptic/memory.html  Saludos!,JAFM

>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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