From: "Geo." 

"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
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> 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?

> 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.

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