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From: nakashim@su-russell.ARPA (Hideyuki Nakashima)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Goal of AI: where are we going?
Message-ID: <363@su-russell.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 13:47:22 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 27 13:47:22 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Sep-87 02:09:46 EDT
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In article <178@usl> khl@usl.usl.edu.UUCP (Calvin Kee-Hong Leung) writes:
>
>We all admit that the human mind is not flawless.  Bias decisions
>can be made due to emotional problems, for instance.  So there is
>no point trying to imitate  the  human  thinking  process.

I believe that those "bad" characteristics of human are necessary
evils to intelligence.  For example, although we still don't understand
the function of emotion in human mind, a psychologist Toda saids that
it is a device for servival.  When an urgent danger is approaching, you
don't have much time to think.  You must PANIC!  Emotion is a meta-
inference device to control your inference mode (mainly of recources).

If we ever make a really intelligent machine, I bet the machine
also has the "bad" characteristics. In summary, we have to study
why human has those characteristics to understand the mechanism of
intelligence.


Hideyuki Nakashima
nakashima@csli.stanford.edu
(or nakashima%etl.jp@relay.cs.net)