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From: bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort)
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Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
Summary: Incremental gain and loss of mental faculties.
Keywords: Brain lesions, strokes, faculties of intellect
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Date: 1 Dec 88 14:13:02 GMT
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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