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From: RICKL%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA
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Subject: Re:  Parallelism & Consciousness
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Date: Sun, 30-Oct-83 16:59:12 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 30 16:59:12 1983
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r question we
have been chasing around is:  ``can intelligence be regarded as survivability,
(or more generally as coping with an external environment)?''.  In the strong
form this position equates the two, and this position seems to be too
strong.  Amoebas cope quite well and have survived for unimaginably longer
than we humans, but are generally acknowledged to be un-intelligent (if
anyone cares to dispute this, please do).  Survivability and coping with
the environment, alone, therefore fail to adequately capture our intuitions
of intelligence.
                        -=*=- rick