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From: jimmyz%oak.dnet@VLSI2.EE.UFL.EDU (Anubis The Psychic Chaos Metal Riffer Warrior)
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Subject: Re: AI and people
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Date: 1 Jun 88 18:01:06 GMT
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I don't think anyone is really attempting to build a computer that is just 
like a human. Rather, AI researchers are trying to UNDERSTAND the mind by 
building models of it. Models do not replace, or duplicate what they model.
They are used to study what they model. A lot of advances of computer software
engineering have been from AI research, primarily in those programs that are
able to simulate a certain aspect of intelligence, such as inductive
reasoning.

As for religion, spritualness, and other meta-physical "science," that is
a matter of personal beliefe. Different people feel/thing different things
about the universe and their place in it. But we can not assume they are all
true. THat is not the way to approach a problem scientifically.


JTR