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From: fransvo@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Frans van Otten)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: "Intelligence"
Keywords: provocation
Message-ID: <960@maestro.htsa.aha.nl>
Date: 6 Jun 89 14:34:32 GMT
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Reply-To: fransvo@htsa.UUCP (Frans van Otten)
Organization: AHA-TMF (Technical Institute), Amsterdam The Netherlands
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Mark E. P. Plutowski writes:

>In this spirit, let me ask one question, phrased two ways:
> 
>
>	Do you agree that learning is present in all 
>	forms of intelligent life we know of?  
>	
>	To what degree do you agree that learning is 
>	a necessary condition of intelligence?  

What do you mean with a "neccesary condition" ?  Do you mean that
learning is needed for obtaining intelligence, or that intelligence
requires constant learning ?  I think that intelligence is in itself
static: it doesn't require learning (remember my much-used example
of the intelligent program).  But by learning the intelligent being
can become more intelligent, whatever that might mean.  In this
approach, only these question remains (the essential one): what is
the minimum intelligence-configuration ?  And: How must this be
achieved ?  By learning or by hardwired bootstrap ?
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