Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!valis From: valis@athena.mit.edu (John O'Neil) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: Testing Intelligence (Re: Turing Test). Message-ID: Date: 11 Dec 90 22:12:44 GMT References: <4832@gara.une.oz.au> <1990Nov30.180650.26648@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1990Dec1.020816.1372@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1990Dec3 Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: smiller@aio.jsc.nasa.gov's message of 10 Dec 90 20:38:34 GMT In article <717@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> smiller@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Stephen Miller) writes: > To fill you in: whales and dolphins have highly developed languages. Active > research has been ongoing for the last fifteen years. In fact, the languages > are so complex and alien that we have not yet cracked them. That means we > cannot understand what they are talking about, but we know they are talking. How do you know? Where's your evidence? If you want to believe that cetaceans have language while you're eating your dolphin-safe tuna, please feel free. If you want to convince anyone else, you'll have to do better than asserting it repeatedly with great fervor. Evidence would help, but you've got a small problem -- there isn't any. John O'Neil Organlegger "From head to toe, you know where to go." Spleens a specialty.