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Posted 2004-03-30, 01:45 PM in reply to Demosthenes's post "Can Computers be "intelliegnt?" Can a..."
No, they cannot think, as they cannot introduce a new process by themselves without a program or external source telling it to do so. The computer is the ultimate in WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get).

You can program enough Boolean strings into a program to where it would appear to think, but it would still not be able to cope with anything it does not recognize.

That is what I believe MJordan was getting at, that true intelligence is the ability to encounter the unknown and decide what to do with it.
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