From: Gene McAloon 

On Mon, 31 May 2004 22:16:07 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
>news:5gknb0p693c4dh03gudv4qcu6loga3o39o{at}4ax.com...
>
>> Except on the most simplistic basis possible, there can be no valid
>comparison
>> between how a router works and how a human mind works. At that, we don't
know
>> exactly how the mind works, so how are to going to program a machine to
>operate
>> in the same way?
>
>Fine, using the same logic how can you claim it is not possible since you
>obviously don't know?

How is it possible if you don't know how?
>
>> The kind of machines, artificial intelligence if you like, you have in mind
>> could exist only if we understood much more about ourselves than we do or
are
>> ever likely to do.
>
>Who says a machine has to understand anything? It only has to emulate the
>logical process.
>
>Geo.
>
What logical process? There is no such thing as a logical process. There is only
a certain way of thinking in which dots are connected and if that achieves
a desired end, we call it logical. If not, not. Talk to a doctor sometime.
Only so
much can be deduced from standardized testing, the results of which may or
may not be useful in a given situation with a particular patient. The
doctor, of necessity, is always making judgments based not so much on
logic, but on his understanding of medicine, particular patients and
particular situations. At least that is true of the good ones. If they
operated on simple logic or some fancied logical process, they would be
less that what they could be.

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