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High level reasoning argument

I don't care about navigation and survival. These are things that get in the way of understanding intelligence. Redefining intelligence to be these things does not help. I am interested in high level reasoning.

I think the adequate answers to these objections would have to be pragmatic arguments. Doability arguments are not going to lead to conclusions until someone actually does achieve human level intelligence. Shifting the definition of intelligence does not help. We don't know enough about the brain to rule out different theories of organization. In the following sections I will try to build an argument on pragmatic grounds.



Deniz Yuret
Tue Apr 1 21:26:01 EST 1997