Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!markh From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Physical Explanation of Intelligence Message-ID: <12911@uwm.edu> Date: 7 Jun 91 23:39:14 GMT References: <1991Jun5.232614.3200@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <1991Jun6.130046.12174@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991Jun6.163227.14377@imagen.com> Sender: news@uwm.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 8 In article <1991Jun6.163227.14377@imagen.com> isaak@imagen.com (mark isaak) writes: >By the way, what's "intelligence"? That which will exist on my machines when I am finished doing what I am doing... (Muffled "MWWAA HAA AHA AHA HAA HAAAA!!") A machine-independent definition: Intelligence is the ability to deal with novel problems in an intelligent fashion. Intelligence is as intelligence does.