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Because the only instances of human level
intelligence we see in the world are humans, it can be argued that we should
try to build things like them. Although this argument seems to be very
appealing to some people, it is repulsive for others, who have two defenses:
(1) We don't know enough about the brain, who knows if the evidence can't be
interpreted in some other way, and (2) We are interested in the concept of
intelligence in general, not just some particular implementation of it. This
topic seems to have a religious attribute, thus is not very useful in
arguments.
Deniz Yuret
Tue Apr 1 21:26:01 EST 1997