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From: utility@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Ronald BODKIN)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: A definition of *INTELLIGENCE*
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Date: 17 Mar 90 00:14:27 GMT
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In article <8533@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> g2g@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ranjan Muttiah) writes:
>If mathematics be the most precise of sciences and its desiderata of
>numbers and sets are left undefined, then how in a more imprecise
>field such as AI can we define intelligence ?
>
>Answer: You don't !
	Maybe intelligence is an "axiomatic" concept, but even still we
should endeavour to name properties of it (numbers are defined in math,
sets have properties).  AI is more "imprecise" only in that it is more
concerned about its abstractions bearing on reality (not so directly
though, as AI is concerned about intelligence in the widest sense).
	Ron