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From: hakanson@orstcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Parallelism & Consciousness - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 3-Nov-83 03:46:16 EST
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orstcs!hakanson    Nov  2 10:21:00 1983

No, no, no.  I understood the point as meaning that the faster intelligence
is merely MORE intelligent than the slower intelligence.  Who's to say that
an amoeba is not intelligent?  It might be.  But we certainly can agree that
most of us are more intelligent than an amoeba, probably because we are
"faster" and can react more quickly to our environment.  And some super-fast
intelligent machine coming along does NOT make us UNintelligent, it just
makes it more intelligent than we are.  (According to the previous view
that faster = more intelligent, which I don't necessarily subscribe to.)

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