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From: pluto@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Mark E. P. Plutowski)
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Subject: Re: Adaptive vs. intelligent (was Re: "Intelligence")
Summary: Modeling required.
Keywords: adaptation, self-organization, initiative,modeling
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Date: 13 Jun 89 23:56:32 GMT
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In article <13493@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> mv10801@uc.msc.umn.edu (Jonathan Marshall) writes:
>Intelligence is not just the ability to learn or adapt.  I would like
>to claim that intelligent organisms all share 3 fundamental properties:
>	1. they can adapt (or learn),
>	2. they self-organize, and
>	3. they have initiative.

I would propose a fourth (on a trial basis):

4. They all model their environments.

Caveats: It may be a feature coincidental 
with intelligence, and not a necessary condition 
of intelligence.  It may not apply to all life, 
such as non-vertebrate  species. Perhaps it would 
be better stated as a distinguishing feature among 
organisms which meet the other 3 criteria.