wallingf@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (Eugene Wallingford) (01/13/90)
M. Holmes writes: > [Description of an artificial intelligence which "lives" inside a computer > simulation, thus obviating the need for sensory organs, etc., in creating > an artificial intelligence.] > > It could be argued that this would just be "simulated thinking" but it > isn't clear that this would be any different from the real thing. Jon Sticklen proposes a similar notion in his paper "Problem Solving Architecture at the Knowledge Level" -- that the simulation of a problem solver is itself a problem solver. This paper appears in a recent issue of the _Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Artificial Intelligence_, along with critiques by Bill Clancey, Brian Slator, and James Hendler (and a response from Sticklen). The point Holmes makes, and the argument he anticipates, play an important role in the paper and a couple of the critiques. ~~~~ Eugene Wallingford ---- AI/KBS Laboratory ~~~~ ~~~~ wallingf@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu ---- Michigan State University ~~~~