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From: logan@nexus.yorku.ca (Beryl Logan)
Subject: Re: A New Turing Test!!!
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 13:24:57 GMT

thomas@ckgp.UUCP (Michael Thomas) writes:

|...'intelligence'
|(as evil as that word is) can be aquired/functional in different
|forms. I might have mentioned this before, but human language
|is based largely on words. I have heard conjecture, that dolphins
|language is largely based on actual images, which they can produce
|the images with clicks and send them over vast distances. The point
|of this is that yes there are different forms of "human" intelligence
|(math,english,compsci,etc) but there are still different forms of
|intelligence like (maybe) one of dolphins. What I'm getting at is that
|a computer might be more "intelligent" (in reference to maintainable
|knowledge) and still not behave like a human or respond like one.

It seems here you are conflating intelligence with language.  That
there is language is a criterion for the claim that there is
intelligence, a language being the sort of thing with rules, syntax,
etc.  There are different forms of language, things that have these
features, such as `math,english,compsci,etc' and, if we knew about its
rules, syntax, etc. `dolphinese' which are criteria, are what gives us
license to say, that an organism is intelligent.