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From: lynch@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Richard Lynch)
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Subject: Re: What AI is exactly.
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Date: 6 Sep 90 14:32:44 GMT
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I liked most of the comments of Philip Nettleton, BUT...
Just how autonomous is a human?
I mean, "No man is an island unto himself." (Dunne ?  I have no idea really.)
Certainly an intelligent machine should be able to handle many things for
itself, but clearly at some point it must be capable of depending on others,
dealing and negotiating with others.  I think it's possible that this req. 
could be dropped as long as the awareness of self is there and something
about developing a interdependence relationships that tend toward survival...
or something like that.  
Q:  Are ethics and/or morals a requirement of intelligence?
Obviously, this is not something with a definitive answer, but INTELLIGENT
NON-FLAMING  NON-ABSURD-ASSUMPTIONS  discussion would be interesting to me.

"TANSTAAFL" Rich lynch@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu