From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:ovl0o11f6hj6b4p0peoamr84ikot6rmoq8{at}4ax.com...

> > Is a system that responds in a predictable and logical way a sign of
> > Intelligence or is intelligence a result of a system that responds in a
> > predictable and logical way?
>
> Now that is a really interesing question.
>
> Certainly, I would guess that it would be hard to have intelligence if the
> universe frequently behaved in unpredictable ways.

Just to make it more interesting, isn't it intelligence that defines
predictable? I mean to a cow the simplest problem is unpredictable where to
us it's perfectly predictable.

So we have to define predictable based on whether or not it followes a
logical set of rules not whether or not we can predict it at this point in
our development. Example is computers today allow us to predict things that
we couldn't have possibly predicted just 60 years ago.

Geo.

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