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Subject: Re: Parallelism & Consciousness
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Date: Wed, 9-Nov-83 02:44:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  9 02:44:00 1983
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>From Minsky:

    ...I think that the word "intelligence" is a social one
    accumulates all sorts of things that one person
    admires observed in others and doesn't understand how to
    do...

    In other words, it seems strange to me that there
    is no public discussion of substantive issues in the
    field...


Exactly...  I agree on both counts.  My purpose is to help
crystallize a few basic topics, worthy of serious discussion, that
relate to those elusive epiphenomena that we tend to lump under
that loose characterization: "Intelligence".  I read both your LM
and Jokes papers and consider them seminal in that general
direction.  I think, though, that your ideas there need, and
certainly deserve, further elucidation.  In fact, I was hoping
that you would be willing to state some of your key points to
this audience.


More than this.  Recently I've been attracted to Doug
Hofstadter's ideas on subcognition and think that attention
should be paid to them as well.  As a matter of fact, I see
certain affinities between you two and would like to see a good
discussion that centers on LM, Jokes, and Subcognition as
Computation.  I think that, in combination, some of the most
promising ideas for AI are awaiting full germination in those
papers.