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- From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
- Subject: Re: Intelligent?
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.073248.21616@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:32:48 GMT
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- In article <1jp731INNn9u@bigboote.WPI.EDU> rosemary@joseph.WPI.EDU (Rosemary Irene Braun) writes:
- >Hello fellow thinkers!
- >
- >Two friends and I recently got into a discussion concerning the definition
- >of intelligence... I was just wondering what you thought, because there seems
- >to be a lot of ambiguity in the concept of intelligence.
-
- Well for starters, what makes you think there is any? In other words, what
- makes you think that there is _one_ thing that we call by this name?
- "Intelligence" might appear less mysterious if you thought about the way we
- commonly use this word.
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