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First letter of Oz to the NG

Ken Collins KPaulC at email.msn.com
Fri Jul 30 08:29:56 EST 1999


sorry... no more 'freebies', at least not on this topic.

K. P. Collins

Kooter wrote in message <7ns1sg$9je$1 at nntp5.atl.mindspring.net>...
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>Ken Collins <KPaulC at email.msn.com> wrote in message
>news:ekcFnfG1#GA.153 at cpmsnbbsa05...
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>> of course, 'AI' 'motivation' can be tailored, but in doing so, it ceases
>to
>> be 'AI' and is just another mechanism lacking Free Will.
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>Humans don't have 'free will'.  We are severly constrained by social
>requirements.  Does that mean that we are also 'just another mechanism
>lacking free will'?
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>I don't see a connection between intelligence and free will.  Slaves did
>what their owners wanted but at the same time some were considered very
>intelligent.
>
>Motivation is the thing that drives us towards a goal.  Whether the
>motivation is caused by hunger or a subroutine in a program is irrelevant.
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