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From: krulwich@gator..arpa (Bruce Krulwich)
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Subject: Re: Goal of AI: where are we going?
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Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 14:34:10 EDT
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In article <1368@houdi.UUCP> marty1@houdi.UUCP (M.BRILLIANT) writes:
>Factually, we know the mind is flawed because we observe that it does
>not do what we expect of it.

If I expect my car to take me to the moon and it doesn't, is it
flawed??  No, rather my expectation of it is wrong.  Similarly, we
shouldn't say that the mind is flawed until we're sure that our
definition of "intelligence" is perfect.

> As a hypothesis, we can test the idea
>that it is flawed because of the action of what we call emotions.  

Why do you assume that emotions are a flaw??  Just maybe emotions are
at the core of intellegence, and logic is just a side issue.

>As
>a further hypothesis, we can also test the idea that emotions motivate
>all human activity.  Personally, I like both those hypotheses.

If you think that emotions motivate all human activity, why do you
dismiss emotions as a flaw in the mind??  It seems to me that human
activity is a lot more "intelligent" than any AI system as of yet.

>Question of definition here: do we agree that emotion, reason,
>consciousness, will, etc., are all functions of the mind?

Yes, and not necessarily "flawed" ones.


Bruce Krulwich

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