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From: eb2e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric James Bales)
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Subject: Re: A "working definition" of intelligence.
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jamesm@gemma.cs.rpi.edu (Michael James) writes:
> 1) What is learning?  I'm not talking about a phrase or off-hand remark. 
>    I am wanting an explicit definition.

Learning is more than just remembering something, such as a computer
storing a bit of data in a look up table so that it will know what to
do when presented with a specific situation in the future.  IMHO,
learning is being able to apply that information to other situations,
some of which can be quite dissimilar.  Learning, to me, is applying
your memories.

> 5) (Oh boy)  What does it mean to reason?  I still am pretty clueless on this
>    one.  Do we 'learn' how to 'reason?'

In order to apply what you remember to situations other than the exact
one that you learned, you have to be able to reason.  To be able to
draw parallels between two situations or events.

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eb2e+@andrew.cmu.edu                              -Eric Kirkbride-
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