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From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
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Date: 14 Nov 88 22:24:54 GMT
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Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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In article <484@soleil.UUCP> peru@soleil.UUCP (Dave Peru) writes:
:Definition of Intelligence:
:
:1. Know how to solve problems.
:2. Know which problems are unsolvable.
:3. Know #1, #2, and #3 defines intelligence.
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:This is the correct definition of intelligence.  If anyone disagrees, please
:state so and why.
:
I disagree.  Is a steelworker intelligent?  Does a steelworker
know which problems are unsolvable (without being told)?
:
:Human beings are not machines.
:
Says who?  Can you prove this?  All the evidence I know points
toward human beings as being machines.

:Human beings are capable of knowing which problems are unsolvable, while
:machines are not.

What does knowing mean?

I thought Douglas Hofstedter's book put this argument to rest some
time ago.