Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!SUNDAR@MIT-OZ
From: SUNDAR%MIT-OZ@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: parallelism and conciousness
Message-ID: <13334@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 13:10:32 EST
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.13334
Posted: Tue Nov  1 13:10:32 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Nov-83 08:57:44 EST
Lines: 22

the case of organisms that multiply by fission (where the line
of division between parent and child is not exactly clear)the structure
of the organism may be preserved .In such cases it would seem that the
organism survives seemingly forever . However it would not be considered
intelligent by the definition proposed above .
The questions that seem interesting to me therefore are:
1 How do humans acquire the concept of 'time'?
2 'Change' seem to be measured in terms of time (adaptation,survival etc
are all the presence or absense of change) but 'time' itself seems to be
meaningless without 'change'!
3 How do humans decide that an organism is 'intelligent ' or not?
Seems to me that most of the people in the AIList made judgements (the
amoeba , desert tortoise, cockroach examples )which should mean that
they either knew what intelligence was or wasn't-but it still isn't
exactly clear after all the smoke's cleared.

    Any comments on the above ideas? As a relative novice to the field
of AI I'd appreciate your opinions.

Thanks.

--Sundar--