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From: fransvo@htsa (Frans van Otten)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
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Date: 17 Nov 88 16:44:12 GMT
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Reply-To: fransvo@htsa.UUCP (Frans van Otten)
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In article <484@soleil.UUCP> peru@soleil.UUCP (Dave Peru) writes:
>Human beings are not machines.

I don't know how important intuition etc. is for (human) intelligence, nor
do I know much about neurology, but viewing the human brain as a lot of
'biological transistors' (neurons etc.), in what way do we differ from a
computer ? Why would it be impossible to make a machine, maybe as big as
the Wolrd Trade Center, that performs (part of) the functions the
human brain (small as it is) performs ? 

Besides, there is not just one kind of intelligence.

-- 
                         Frans van Otten
                         Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam
			 Technische en Maritieme Faculteit
                         fransvo@htsa.uucp