From: utzoo!watmath!rggoebel Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Computer intelligence? Article-I.D.: watmath.4346 Posted: Sat Jan 15 11:19:49 1983 Received: Sun Jan 16 08:06:12 1983 References: eagle.727 You've got to be kidding? A controller, or any other device, is hardly more ``intelligent'' because it's more like a computer. I suspect you've been reading too many advertisements in Datamation or something? Intelligence is based on knowledge and its application...despite philosophical problems with the concept of knowledge, anthropomorphizing gives us `quick and dirty' ways of describing machine (or any other purposive) behaviour. My television certainly `knows' more about video broadcast frequencies than your computer; I guess that means it's intelligent because it's less like a computer?