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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
Message-ID: <2769@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 88 15:06:58 GMT
References: <163@censor.UUCP>
Organization: University of Hawaii
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From article <163@censor.UUCP>, by jeff@censor.UUCP (Jeff Hunter):
" 
"     I disagree. Emotions form a relatively simple reasoning system.... 
" There's a viable society without needing deep thought on the economics of
" co-operation vs competition, or long computer modelling runs, etc...

This is a parochially human view.  Emotions seem simple to you, because
you can experience them without effort or reflection, and because
"lower" animals have them too.  Why not reason that since the
mechanisms that permit animals to form societies took much longer
to evolve than those permitting human reason that the former must
be more complex?  I think that would make at least as much sense.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu