Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> Brent Meeker writes:
>
>
>>I don't think "intelligence" is meaningful without an environment with
>>which it can interact. The same for computation: what distinguishes
>>computation and noise is a context in which it interacts with its
>>environment.
>
>
> What about an intelligent, conscious being spending its time dreaming?
>
> Stathis Papaioannou
You're hypothesizing an intelligent being and then asking me if it's
intelligent??
It a computatation only "dreams" then how could you know whether it was
intelligence, or just noise?
Brent Meeker
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Received on Mon Jul 31 2006 - 00:15:48 PDT