Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!prathuri From: prathuri@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Chandrasekhar .P) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: The difference between machine and human intelligence (was: AI and Intelligence) Message-ID: Date: 18 Nov 88 02:40:10 GMT References: <484@soleil.UUCP> <4216@homxc.UUCP> <401@uwslh.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 25 With reference to Lishka's posting: i agree with your statement that machines can never replicate humans. Afterall, it is the human who has to give the machine this capability. To do such a job, man has to go a long way. ** Man, till now, has no exact knowledge of the physiology of his brain - ie, the hardware of his system. ** He is not sure of its software either. (What operating system does he use!) ** To make a system that can simulate human intelligence, it should have the structure of a human brain. To make such a machine man should understand his own structure first to give the machine commonsense. Don't you think there is a very long way to go? **Manyresearchers have said that a perfect reasoning system simulating human intelligence should know about itself; should reason about the reasoning process. Does man do this? But still aren't we intelligent? ** Conclusion: Should the machine know about itself to be intelligent? chandra s prathuri@elbereth.rutgers.edu csp@mars