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From: bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel)
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Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
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Date: 22 Dec 88 21:32:12 GMT
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In article <1901@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Gordon E. Banks) writes:
> {...}  for example, if you
>believe that intelligence is a function of man's spirit rather than
>the brain) then you have a logical reason for rejecting the idea
>of an artificial intelligence.  (Even that objection might be met
>with the notion that given a sufficiently complex machine, a spirit
>might be found to inhabit it, as well, although that is truly a leap
>of faith!)

  An interesting twist that I have often pondered is that intelligent
  life might require a machine (brain etc.) within an energy field
  (ie. electromagnetic or some derivative that we can or cannot currently
  measure).  Just a metaphysical thought. :-)

Steve Bickel