From: "Robert Comer" 

You give cows far to little credit, they solve problems too as well as any
other animal, that just means that they can react and choose.

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Bob Comer


"Geo"  wrote in message
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> "John Beckett" 
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>> > 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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