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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: AI - the real problem
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.204538.21350@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 91 20:45:38 GMT
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In article <1991Feb28.193218.21879@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> dailey@buster.cps.msu.edu (Chris Dailey) writes:
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>How about this:  Human intelligence is the ability to recognize
>patterns in the environment [in order] to make generalizations and
>predictions about future events.

 Sound OK, providing that you will agree that Pavlov's dog exhibited
human intelligence.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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