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From: kp@uts.amdahl.com (Ken Presting)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Simulating thinking is NOT like simulating flying
Summary: Another example of multi-dimensionality in the concept of thought
Keywords: Strong AI, Weak AI, methodology, simulating thought
Message-ID: <306p024Y8cUy01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 26 Feb 90 20:53:35 GMT
References: <13212@cs.yale.edu> <74@cogsci.ucsd.EDU> <1344@oravax.UUCP> <1990Feb24.234005.15474@wuche2.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: kp@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Ken Presting)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <1990Feb24.234005.15474@wuche2.wustl.edu> mw@wuche2.UUCP writes:
> . . .  It is shallow to think that
>speed is an *essential* feature of intelligence. 
>A trivial example: Are you (Roland) really happy or 
>convince that a small PC machine, which *essentially* computes 
>even simple multiplication faster than you, an intelligence machine 
>or it is smarter than you are in this regard.

Ooh.  Ooh.  Another chance to ride my favorite hobby-horse.

If we stop trying to define an "essence" for intelligence, and instead
define a collection of scales for comparing different aspects of
intelligence, we don't have to debate this issue at all!  (there are
plenty of other things... :-)

I propose that one aspect of intelligence is speed.