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Date: 29 Nov 88 21:47:00 GMT
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>  Intelligence is the capacity to do actions, make statements,
>  exercise judgement, believe knowledge, and pay attention.
>--JoSH

Let's see now, my computer can do actions (such as print a file), 
make statements (it tells me when some command is illegal), exercise
judgment (isn't that what a conditional jump means?), believe knowledge
(I've got several files of "knowledge" on my hard disk), and pay
attention (it waits at the command line for an infinite amount of time
until I'm ready to tell it something).  I've never thought of my
MS-DOS machine as intelligent until now :-)

I think your definition is not a good working definition for 
intelligence, at least not in the AI domain.

Don Subt			The opinions expressed above are
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