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From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (Gordon E. Banks)
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Subject: Re: What AI is exactly.
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Date: 18 Sep 90 14:44:52 GMT
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In article <3873@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> jim@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jim Ruehlin, Cognitologist domesticus) writes:

>they might, in fact probably do.  My arguments here are ment to convey
>that I think we need to be more rigorous in our definitions about such 
>things.  An insect or slug may look like it learns something, but it's
>lack of much of a nervous system makes it unlikely.  

Despite what you think unlikely, it can be rigorously proved that such
animals learn.  THis is done by comparing their behavior over many
trials with random.  So even simple nervous systems learn.