Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!bu-cs!mirror!rayssd!raybed2!linus!mbunix!bwk From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Sound and complete definitions of intelligence. Summary: Let's start putting this jigsaw together. Keywords: Induction, Inference, Knowledge Message-ID: <43229@linus.UUCP> Date: 23 Dec 88 16:11:42 GMT References: <7749@klaatu.rutgers.edu> <193600002@trsvax> <5590@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <5609@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <44@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) Organization: Cerebral Tours, Axon Causeway, NJ Lines: 49 In article <44@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes: > In article > josh@klaatu.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) makes reference to: > Mark Plutowski's challenge: > > I'm looking forward to any sound and complete defintions of: > > KNOWLEDGE, BELIEF, INTUITION, INDUCTION, IMAGINATION, INTELLIGENCE. > > Let's take a stab at it: > > INDUCTION: Having inductive ability means being able to derive > more general facts from less general instances in a > reliable (though not infallible) way. > > INTELLIGENCE: The ability to successfully cope with unexpected > problems is the core of intelligence. Permit me to gently remove Mark's dagger from the corpus of discussion, and quote from the Hypercard Stack, "Semantic Network": Knowledge is a structured integration of information that enables thoughtful action. A theory is a belief about a system for which the evidence is consistent but inconclusive. Intuition is a form of theory construction using model-based reasoning on partial information. Inductive reasoning (backward chaining or goal-directed reasoning) is a form of reasoning in which a knowledge base is traversed to find causal antecedents consistent with asserted facts. Imagination is the process of conceiving ideas (or possibilities) for changing the state-of-affairs of a system. Intelligence is the ability to think and solve problems. Inferential reasoning is a form of information processing that transforms observations of correlated events into theories about cause and effect relationships. Thinking is a rational form of information process which reduces the entropy or uncertainty of a knowledge base, generates solutions to outstanding problems, and conceives goal-oriented courses of action. [There's more, but we'll save the rest for later.] --Barry Kort