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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
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Date: 30 Nov 88 15:41:52 GMT
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From article <1985@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, by gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton):
" ...
" People are loose with their language.  What counts is what they stick
" out for.

I guess I didn't make myself clear.  You had argued, as I understood you,
that language is loose, and AI approaches do not take this adequately
into account.  But in judging the prospects for creating artificial
minds, you use a preconceived notion of what intelligence "really"
means, rather than letting the meaning emerge, loosely, from a social and
conversational consensus (as appears to be happening).  There appear
to be two different and conflicting ideas about the nature of meaning
in language involved.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu