Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 08:34:57 03/19/01
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On March 19, 2001 at 11:06:48, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >On March 16, 2001 at 17:27:28, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On March 16, 2001 at 16:54:45, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >> >>>On March 16, 2001 at 12:07:39, Christophe Theron wrote: >>> >[deleted] > >> >>>>In the case you describe, doing something, even at random, is more "intelligent" >>>>than doing nothing. If you do nothing you don't solve the problem, if you do >>>>something at random, you solve it. >>> >>>IMHO, I would not call that intelligence. >> >> >>Here we go again. By this sentence you imply that you have set an arbitrary line >>between "intelligence" and "non-intelligence". By doing this you fall into the >>trap. > >No, because I do not think that there is a line. I think that there is a blurred >limit that you cannot draw any line. However, in the extremes you can certainly >tell that a human is intelligent and a piece of stone is not. > >>> That is just the second law of >>>thermodynamics. Even a molecule of gas will find the exit just by random chance. >>>Doing nothing is just doing something at random. That is the default, "standing >>>still" is actually more difficult. A random algorithm is trying to mimick >>>the laws of nature. I will not call that intelligence, otherwise, anything >>>is intelligent. >> >> >>That's the point. Every behaviour has some "intelligence", to various degrees. >>Instead of trying to define what is intelligent and what is not, we should try >>to define what is "more intelligent". > >You can't define what is more intelligent because intelligence is not >characterized in only one dimension. My opinion is that you can say when >somthing has signs of intelligence or not. >It is like defining life, or sports. We know that soccer is a sport and >watching TV is not. But there are things in between that are not so clear. > >Regards, >Miguel >> Please see ==> http://sciam.com/specialissues/1198intelligence/1198yam.html >> >> Christophe
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