Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cray.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!stolaf!cray!hrp From: hrp@cray.UUCP (Hal Peterson) Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: Re: Minsky's definition of AI (really definition of I) Message-ID: <292@cray.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 16:22:23 EST Article-I.D.: cray.292 Posted: Sun Nov 10 16:22:23 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 06:37:24 EST References: <162@cvaxa.UUCP> <1234@ames.UUCP> Organization: Cray Research Inc., Mendota Heights, MN Lines: 13 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** > Intelligence is the ability to simultaneously hold two contradictory > thoughts in one's head. > --eugene miya I have never liked that definition. If one is loose in defining "thoughts" and "head," it's a very good definition for a large class of bugs: inconsistent use of representations. This is certainly an aspect of human intelligence, but the definition can be fulfilled without that sort of complexity. -- Hal Peterson / Cray Research / 1440 Northland Dr. / Mendota Hts, MN 55120 UUCP: ihnp4!cray!hrp phone: (612) 681-3085