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From: berry@arcturus.uucp (Berry;Craig D.)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea
Message-ID: <1991May21.163707.2506@arcturus.uucp>
Date: 21 May 91 16:37:07 GMT
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G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:

>The topic of the strangeness of extraterrestrias "thought" is covered
>in "The Mote in God's" - authored Larry Nevin and somebody else (not
>sure of the names here at all).

The novel is "The Mote in God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry
Pournelle.  It is a good example of a very nonhuman way of thinking.
John Campbell (famous science fiction editor) used to challenge his
authors "Show me something that thinks *as well* as a human, but
*differently*."  This is known as the Campbell Challenge.  It seems
to me that AI researchers are answering the Challenge in a new way.