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From: fransvo@htsa.uucp (Frans van Otten)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
Message-ID: <676@htsa.uucp>
Date: 19 Dec 88 13:42:02 GMT
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In article <4040a289.9d8d@hi-csc.UUCP> harper@hi-csc.UUCP (Paul L. Harper) writes:
>I am continually amazed at the faith of AI "researchers"
>(programmers?). I have seen nothing whatsoever from the AI
>community that indicates there is any hope of producing
>intelligence by running instructions on computers. 
>
>It is an incredible leap of faith, completely unfounded 
>by science, to assume that computers can obtain the human
>quality we call intelligence. Where is the scientific justification
>for the assumption? 

Where is the (scientific ?) justification for the above assumption ?
-- 
                         Frans van Otten
                         Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam
			 Technische en Maritieme Faculteit
                         fransvo@htsa.uucp