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From: wallingf@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (Eugene Wallingford)
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Subject: Thinking Vs Simulated Thinking
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Date: 12 Jan 90 19:32:40 GMT
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M. Holmes writes:
 
> [Description of an artificial intelligence which "lives" inside a computer
> simulation, thus obviating the need for sensory organs, etc., in creating
> an artificial intelligence.]
>
> It could be argued that this would just be "simulated thinking" but it
> isn't clear that this would be any different from the real thing.

     Jon Sticklen proposes a similar notion in his paper "Problem
     Solving Architecture at the Knowledge Level" -- that the
     simulation of a problem solver is itself a problem solver.
     This paper appears in a recent issue of the _Journal of Theoretical
     and Experimental Artificial Intelligence_, along with critiques
     by Bill Clancey, Brian Slator, and James Hendler (and a response
     from Sticklen).  The point Holmes makes, and the argument he
     anticipates, play an important role in the paper and a couple of
     the critiques.

~~~~ Eugene Wallingford            ----    AI/KBS Laboratory         ~~~~
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