Xref: utzoo comp.ai:2766 talk.philosophy.misc:1663 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ukma!gatech!linus!mbunix!bwk From: bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort) Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Summary: Incremental gain and loss of mental faculties. Keywords: Brain lesions, strokes, faculties of intellect Message-ID: <42354@linus.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 88 14:13:02 GMT References: <484@soleil.UUCP> <1654@hp-sdd.HP.COM> <1908@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1791@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <819@novavax.UUCP> <1811@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <757@quintus.UUCP> <562@metapsy.UUCP> <1829@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) Organization: Cerebral Tours, Pt. Lobos, CA Lines: 16 In article <1829@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Gordon E. Banks) writes in response to Sarge Gerbode: >Then I presume that patients with various brain lesions, such as >bilateral lesions of the hippocampus are to be considered non-intelligent? Intelligence is not a binary trait. Last night on the PBS series, "The Mind", we saw how a stroke affected the mental life of a promising young attorney. The loss of function in his prefrontal lobes impaired his ability to conceive and plan a course of action and to solve problems. He is now a truck driver. After his stroke, it took a long time for the therapists to identify which faculties of intellect were lost. It is not yet clear whether the lost faculties can be reaquired. --Barry Kort