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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
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In article <1841@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Gordon E. Banks) writes:
>Neither of these two propositions can be demonstrated reliably.
>The behaviorists have shown that behavior which subjectively seems
>to us to be caused by intention can be determined (even hypnotists
>can demonstrate this), 

Er, how do hypnotists demonstrate that?  Perhaps I've read too many issues
of the Skeptical Inquirer and not enough of the National Enquirer, but my
understanding was that hypnotism is these days regarded as a form of
voluntary fantasy.  (We'll just have to put up with "voluntary" until
Skinner sends me the Official Phrasebook.)

As for the first part of this, there is a philosophical tradition called
"compatibilism", which holds that "it was caused by intention" and
"it was determined" are not contradictory.