Xref: utzoo comp.ai:2745 talk.philosophy.misc:1651 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Message-ID: <2730@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 30 Nov 88 15:41:52 GMT References: <1985@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 15 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