Xref: utzoo comp.ai:2798 talk.philosophy.misc:1681 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!arisia!quintus!ok From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Message-ID: <817@quintus.UUCP> Date: 6 Dec 88 08:10:32 GMT References: <562@metapsy.UUCP> <2732@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <563@metapsy.UUCP> <1841@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> Sender: news@quintus.UUCP Reply-To: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 14 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.