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From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: intelligence is what?
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Date: 12 Oct 90 23:51:20 GMT
References: <1990Oct11.195803.18308@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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In article <1990Oct11.195803.18308@watdragon.waterloo.edu> cpshelley@violet.waterloo.edu (cameron shelley) writes:
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>  Many postings suggest that "intelligence", "self-awareness",
>"consciousness", &c. are equivalent or at least strongly
>related.  What is it that necessarily makes them so?

I would say nothing.  I always try to treat them as seperate entities.
If I ever fail to do so, please point it out to me.
[In some cases, where I am responding to someone else, it may not be clear
that I am making a distinction, but I hope I still am]

> Does
>intelligence automatically imply the ability to perform introspection,
>by which act applied to itself constitutes self-awareness?

Probably not.  I consider 'intelligence' to be the capability to
reason on the basis of limited data.  I do not see that this necessarily
ensures self-awareness.   I would say that without self-monitoring
transducers providing input about self there is no basis for self-awareness.
[That is a physical basis is needed for self-awareness]

However I would say that consciousness cannot exist without self-awareness.
Whether self-awareness can exist without consciousness is difficult.
[Actually, as I think about it, I realize I have not always distinguished
between these last two].

Could it be that self-awareness plus intelligence generates consciousness??
[That is self-awareness based on internal monitoring plus reasoning & modelling
generate the sense of self as part of an outside world that we call
consciousness.

Tentative Definitions:

Intelligence:	the capacity to use models and patterns to reason about and
		make decisions with incomplete or distorted data.

Self-awareness:	the capability to apply mental processes to oneself.

Consciousness:	the existance of intellectual self-models as part of
		an intelligent reasoning process.
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