ladkin@KESTREL.ARPA (Peter Ladkin) (03/08/86)
(ladkin [Dreyfus's] major argument is that there are some areas of human experience related to intelligence which do not appear amenable to machine mimicry. (joly) Could these areas be named exactly? Agreed that there are emotional aspects that cannot be programmed into a machine, what parts of the ``human experience related to intelligence'' will also remain out- side of the machine's grip? In answer to your first, a) In *What Computers Can't Do*, there is the example of the phenomenology of perception, as studied in gestalt psychology. In particular, the whole issue of wholes being perceived before parts. b) In his recent Stanford talk, he mentioned the extreme emotional content of Bobby Fischer's chess playing, and conjectured that the emotions might be connected with the *success* of his playing. Given that an emotional component may be a part of successful expert behaviour in some cases, this also addresses your second question. Peter Ladkin