Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!htsa!fransvo
From: fransvo@htsa (Frans van Otten)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Sound and complete definitions of intelligence.
Message-ID: <659@htsa.uucp>
Date: 12 Dec 88 10:04:43 GMT
References: <Dec.6.15.57.28.1988.9988@klaatu.rutgers.edu> <2768@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <Dec.8.18.59.38.1988.10409@klaatu.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: fransvo@htsa.UUCP (Frans van Otten)
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In article <Dec.8.18.59.38.1988.10409@klaatu.rutgers.edu> josh@klaatu.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) writes:
>                       And the existance of "idiot savant" human
>calculators proves that there are significantly faster ways that
>even the brain can do some things like that.
>
>--JoSH

I disagree. In these cases a part of the brain is over-developed. Let's
agree on the fact that the human brain is very powerful. 'Normal' people
use this power quite scattered (see my article about multiple 'kinds' of
intelligence). Idiot savants use most of their brain power for a very
small task. To compare: Take a big mainframe with hundreds of users. If
you would use a single user, single tasking operating system on the same
hardware, wouldn't that be fast !

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