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From: feedback (Bryan Bankhead)
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Subject: Against AI
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Date: 25 Sep 90 11:58:31 GMT
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I may get flamed to death, but I have to say this, although I have a vital 
interest in the area of AI, in science all pronouncements must be subject 
to COUNTERVERIFIABILITY. With this in mind I have decided to start a 
thread dealing with arguments AGAINST the idea that true artificial 
intellegence is reproducible.
        1/ Intellingence occurs at the wrong hierarchial level 
                        We may not be capable of programming what is going 
on in our minds because intellingence is produced at levels our software 
is not capable of "backstrapping" (a term I just coined) itself to, that 
is our software may not be capable of instantiating our 'other order' 
operations in the form that our 'awareness' is capable of processing.
There are known examples of this in computer sci..  for instance it has 
been proven that von nueman programming constructs are incapable of 
determining if they themselves are self terminating.  Other laws of 
information processing may indeed prevent the recursive instantiation of 
the 'clockwork' behind our own consciousness.
        Pleasnote I have placed the number 
'1' in front of my above instance.  I am sure you bright people are 
capable of adding to the list.
 Thank you for your time
                        B Bankhead