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From: cerebus@corona.bu.edu (Timothy Miller)
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Subject: Re: What AI is exactly.
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Date: 19 Sep 90 17:32:45 GMT
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In article <36796@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) writes:
|> In article <3875@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> jim@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jim Ruehlin, Cognitologist domesticus) writes:
|> 
|> >I'm not being homocentric, I'm trying to be rigorous in what we're saying.
|> >No one has "proved" intelligence in any other species or software. 
|>              ^^^^^^                  ^^^^^^^^^
|> 
|> Jim, can you point me at a PROOF that humans ARE intelligent?
|> 
|> David Mark, dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu

	That particular question is the bane of many a philosophy student:

	"Prove to me that I think."

	Can't be done.  I may *act* like I think, but what *proof* is that?

	For that matter, prove to me that you *exist*.  Even Descartes got stuck in that one.

				Just trying to make your existence a 
				little less secure,

					Timothy J. Miller
					cerebus@bu-pub.bu.edu