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From: sticklen@cpswh.cps.msu.edu (Jon Sticklen)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Simulating thinking is NOT like simulating flying
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Date: 22 Feb 90 13:52:42 GMT
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From article <48c9f211.1a4d7@cicada.engin.umich.edu>, by zarnuk@caen.engin.umic\
h.edu (Paul Steven Mccarthy):
>
...
>    -- Who cares how the black box works, as long as it works?
>


that clearly is one approach to AI. but it is not the only one.
others of us would like to use the experience of building
"black boxes that work" as a springboard to reaching for
principles that underlie intelligent beahavior.

        ---jon---




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