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From: muttiah@rye.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
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Subject: Re: What AI is exactly.
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Date: 15 Sep 90 18:35:27 GMT
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In article <2495@frankland-river.aaii.oz.au> dnk@frankland-river.aaii.oz.au (David Kinny) writes:
>Enough of this homocentric stupidity.  Intelligence is not something you
>can "detect" by observing neuronal activity, it is an emergent property
>of extremely complex systems, it derives from their structure, it is

Here is a goody:

	Intelligence is what intelligence test measure much like temperature
	is what a thermometer measures, pressure is what a pressure gauge
	measures etc etc etc.
	
	Unfortunately, I think, the more we know what "intelligence" really is
	the less likely we will find a decent DEF. since it is NOT a static
	phenomena.