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From: khl@usl (Calvin K. H. Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Goal of AI: where are we going? (the right way?)
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Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 06:27:50 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 10 06:27:50 1987
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In article <1270@isl1.ri.cmu.edu> cycy@isl1.ri.cmu.edu (Christopher Young) writes:
> I do believe that there is some mechanism to minds (or perhaps a variety of
> them). One reason why I am interested in AI (perhaps this is very Cog. Sci.
> of me, actually) is because I think perhaps it will help elucidate the ways
> in which the human mind works, and thus increase our understanding of human
> behaviour.

I agree with the idea that there must be some mechanisms that our
minds  are  using.   But  the different reasoning methods (proba-
bilistic reasoning, for instance) that we  are  studying  in  the
area  of  AI are not the way one reasons: we never use the Bayes'
Theorem in our thinking process.   The  use  of  those  reasoning
methods, in my point of view, will never help increase our under-
standing of human behavior.  Because our minds  just  don't  work
that way.


                                           Calvin K H Leung

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