Author: Travers Waker
Date: 06:01:01 11/25/03
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>I think it is just better to view a computer program as a black box, a chess >playing entity that selects its move by some unknown method as far as everyone >but the author is concerned. If it wants to query a database, that's fine. If it >wants to run a piece of software, that's fine. If it wants to invoke specialized >computer chess hardware (ex. Brutus, Deep Blue, etc.), that's fine. What if it wants to consult a human? (according to Kasparov, ex. Deep Blue) Maybe put that human in the black box (Turk). Is the human part of the computer (biological component)? The interface between the human and the computer is a video display and keyboard rather than a PCI bus, but does that necessarily mean that the combination of the computer and the human aren't a single, loosely coupled chess-playing entity (computer)? Travers
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