Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!bionet!agate!ucbvax!ucsd!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Message-ID: <2769@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 7 Dec 88 15:06:58 GMT References: <163@censor.UUCP> Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 14 From article <163@censor.UUCP>, by jeff@censor.UUCP (Jeff Hunter): " " I disagree. Emotions form a relatively simple reasoning system.... " There's a viable society without needing deep thought on the economics of " co-operation vs competition, or long computer modelling runs, etc... This is a parochially human view. Emotions seem simple to you, because you can experience them without effort or reflection, and because "lower" animals have them too. Why not reason that since the mechanisms that permit animals to form societies took much longer to evolve than those permitting human reason that the former must be more complex? I think that would make at least as much sense. Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu