I tend to agree. There is no requirement that intelligence requires emotion. Probably the most important requisite to intelligence is a strong survival instinct at the species level, and an environment where a high level of intelligence is a determining factor in survival. (Whether that environment still exists is not necessarily an important question once intelligence has developed.)
At 06:23 AM 5/25/2003 -0700, you wrote: >--- will hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ><snip> > > If machines become intelligent, they must feel. > > Without emotion there is no reason to make a choice > > and a machine that can't make choices is not > > intelligent. > > > > _______________________________________________ ><snip> > >I see no absolute reason that emotion must be coupled >to intelligence. I could, in fact,cite a wealth of >information that indicates emotion is the perfect >counter to intelligent decisions. I doubt "we" could >ever really communicate in a meaningful way with such >an intelligence, as our decisions would remain >subjective, and the other objective. We could share >science, math, medicine and a few other things, but >art, music, sex, and the more subtle arts would be >left out of the equation. > >Cosider a collective. Ants perform intelligent >actions, but show little that we could allude to >passion. I would almost expect an intelligence we >meet from without or within "known space" to be an >advanced version of ants or wasps. It is a very early >development in evolution (at least here), and very >successful. What are the odds that we meet such an >entity? Better than average. Especially if we create >it. > >What would thier passion be, aside from survival? > >The individual parts would be little different than >machines. The whole could be inteligent, but would it >like Rodan, or Santana? Probably not. They might see >in a wavelength that precludes enjoying Monet. I, at >least, cannot fathom a collective that "feels." > >I could be wrong, God knows I have a couple of >ex-wives that say I have been wrong before... > >Anyway, it seems like a fun topic to kick around. If >it annoys the list, let's take it off-line. > >===== >Warmest Regards, > >Doug Riddle >http://www.dougriddle.com >http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/ >http://www.libranet.com >-- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are >the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington -- > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. >http://search.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
