Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!uwslh!lishka From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: The difference between machine and human intelligence (was: AI and Intelligence) Message-ID: <402@uwslh.UUCP> Date: 18 Nov 88 16:26:02 GMT References: <484@soleil.UUCP> <4216@homxc.UUCP> <401@uwslh.UUCP> Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts) Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab Lines: 57 In article prathuri@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Chandrasekhar .P) writes: > [some text deleted...C.L.] > >** 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? Oh yeah! If we (as humans) ever get there! >**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? Maybe we do know about ourselves in the sense that we understand that we *do* have the ability to reason rationally or irrationally, and that it seems to be an ability that other, non-living things (such as rocks, cars, and computers) do not have. I think that humans *do* reason about the reasoning process, as witnessed by some original thinking in religion, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and AI. >** Conclusion: Should the machine know about itself to be >intelligent? My feeling on this (and I do not have reasons to back it up!) is *yes*, the machine should at the very least have a concept of its own self in order to be intelligent. Possibly this would be to provide a reference point from which it could reason about the rest of the world. I wonder if creating a machine that had a concept of its own self would be easier than trying to give it intelligence right away? (Probably not...just a thought). However, if a machine *was* created that understood what it was (in some sense), it may have an easier time relating the rest of the world to itself. It would also seem that this is a very important part of human (and other animals') nature. The ability to relate to the world from a fixed perspective (our own individual perspective) seems to me to be an important one. >chandra s prathuri@elbereth.rutgers.edu csp@mars Please do not take this too seriously! I am just wondering "out loud," and hoping to stimulate some other interesting ideas (of which there have been quite a few lately). .oO Chris Oo.-- Christopher Lishka ...!{rutgers|ucbvax|...}!uwvax!uwslh!lishka Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene lishka%uwslh.uucp@cs.wisc.edu Immunology Section (608)262-1617 lishka@uwslh.uucp "I'm not aware of too many things... I know what I know if you know what I mean" -- Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians