On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > if you could tell me how to determine if a computer has intelligence The same way I determine if one of my fellow human beings is intelligent, if he beats me at a intellectual task then he's intelligent, in fact he's more intelligent than I am at least at that task. A few people are more intelligent than me at nearly everything, some are better at only a few very specialized tasks and some are better than me at nothing, like people in a coma or dead people. > free will What a odd sequence of ASCII characters, perhaps your keyboard had a malfunction. > consciousness I detect consciousness in computers the exact same way I determine it in my fellow human beings, I guess. I guess that if they're behaving intelligently then they're conscious. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
