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- From: adrian@robots.ox.ac.uk (Adrian Cox)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
- Subject: Re: Eating our other world friends & enemies
- Message-ID: <ADRIAN.92Jul29152441@duncan.robots.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 14:24:41 GMT
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- In-reply-to: mfriedma@uucp's message of 29 Jul 92 06:52:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.065223.28918@oracle.us.oracle.com> mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes:
- Might be a bit easier if we had a definition of intelligence. I don't
- have a good one, but at least its clear - you're intelligent if you
- conciously attempt to modify your environment when it threatens you.
- ^^^^^^^^^^
- Dolphins clearly do not.
-
- Unfortunately, your clear definition of intelligence includes that
- great un-measurable, consciousness. If you can come up with a clear
- definition of `conciously' (sic) then I'll accept your definition of
- intelligence as clear.
-
- - Adrian
-
- Warning: the author of the above message is happy, well adjusted, and
- attempting to be cynical. He is not, nor has he ever been, an
- anthropomorphic animal, though he has, on occasion, been a small dog
- or penguin. He does not use smilies. Thank you for your cooperation.
-