wk5w@impcsun2.bme.Virginia.EDU (William Thang Katz) (12/17/89)
The Jan. 1990 issue of Scientific American contains a pair of articles by John Searle and Paul M. & Patricia Smith Churchland. The articles address the old AI debate: "Can computers think?" Last summer I wrote a paper on "Intelligence and Computation" which explores how we might build intelligent computers in practice as well as in theory. A number of issues in the Sci American articles are explored with reference to books such as "The Mind's I", "Mind Design", and especially "The Artificial Intelligence Debate" (previously released as a Daedalus special issue on AI). If you are interested in this subject, drop me some e-mail and I'll send the paper in troff format. It is 13 pages long (double-spaced). I would be very open to reader feedback regarding both the plausibility and soundness of the paper's arguments. ========================================================================= | William T. Katz, wk5w@virginia.edu | | University of Virginia Medical Scientist Training (MD/PhD) Program | ========================================================================= | "Despite the cost of living, it's still popular." | =========================================================================