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From: u-dmfloy%ug.utah.edu@wasatch.UUCP (Daniel M Floyd)
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Subject: Reasoning during dreams
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Date: 23 Mar 89 07:14:36 GMT
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In article <1368@hub.ucsb.edu> silber@sbphy.ucsb.edu writes:
>In dreaming, ... [things are different]. 
>I am interested in any NET-speculation re: this phenomenon and its
>interpretation from the standpoint of a-i.

Dreaming is a strange thought process. (I am not trying to define it
explicitly, only generally at best.) With all this
Total-Keyboard-Language-Understanding-Turing test going on in this group,
dreaming is a welcome topic.

Do computers dream? Can they? Could they? Should they? If they do
do they then posess intelligence? And, prehaps more directly related
to AI, if we model intelligence, particularly that of a human, must
we also model the dreaming aspect of thought?

I think that if we *broadly* define dreaming, a computer can dream, some
do, have, and should? But, we have to define dreaming properly to follow
that line of thought. I suppose that sleep disorder researchers would
love to have a computer that modeled human thought patterns while
dreaming - a dream simulator. Maybe we could make ELIZA dream.
Wouldn't that be fun.
Dan Floyd
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