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From: ray@bcsaic.UUCP (Ray Allis)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
Keywords: self awareness
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Date: 6 Dec 88 23:02:28 GMT
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ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) says:

>"An awareness of self" might be important to an intelligent organism,
>but it might be a *consequence* of intelligence rather than a
>*precondition* for it.

"Self-awareness" is not required for intelligent behavior (my definition
of intelligence, of course), but it IS necessary for the association of
experiences which constitutes symbol definition.  Note that symbol
*manipulation*, as by digital computers, can proceed in the total absense
of intelligence.