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Subject: Re: To Robert Hyatt, Dan Corbit, Christophe Theron , And Other Experts.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:27:50 08/07/02

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On August 06, 2002 at 12:23:47, José Carlos wrote:
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>  As Bob said in another message, we don't know how human mind works. I,
>personally, have always thought that we humans are nothing but very complex
>computers. Do I have a proof? No I don't. Can anyone proove me wrong? I don't
>think so. But as long as we can't make a good definition of intelligence, we
>can't say if computers (or humans!) are intelligent or not.
>  Even if humans are just complex computers, we can see the different degree of
>complexity between human decisions and computers decisions. The gap is still too
>wide, IMO, to consider them equivalent.

Even at that, it is very clear that computers do not think at all.  They only
execute the instruction sequence that we have given them.

Personally, I do not consider anything intelligent if it does not have
cognition.

On the other hand, when a computer does think, what then, will be the meaning of
"Cogito, ergo, sum."



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