Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!watdragon!violet!cpshelley From: cpshelley@violet.uwaterloo.ca (cameron shelley) Subject: Re: Testing Intelligence (Re: Turing Test). Message-ID: <1990Nov30.180650.26648@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes) Organization: University of Waterloo References: <4832@gara.une.oz.au> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 90 18:06:50 GMT Lines: 21 In article greenba@gambia.crd.ge.com (ben a green) writes: [...] > >A most interesting and helpful posting! > >IMHO paragraphs a and b are non-controversial, but paragraphs c and d >would rule out, say, cats, since reasoning and self awareness in any >non-trivial senses require language. > How do you figure that? Do you mean a mental language? If so, what do you consider 'mentalese' to be like? -- Cameron Shelley | "Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning cpshelley@violet.waterloo.edu| in strict accordance with the limitations and Davis Centre Rm 2136 | incapacities of the human misunderstanding..." Phone (519) 885-1211 x3390 | Ambrose Bierce