Re: Challenge to the behaviourists, #1

From: Allan C Cybulskie (allan.c.cybulskie_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:42:13 -0400

"Wolf Kirchmeir" <wwolfkir@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:1fN%c.24884$lP4.1435536@news20.bellglobal.com...
> Allan C Cybulskie wrote:
> > I have a couple of challenges to the behaviourists to let them explain
their
> > view a little clearer.
> >
> > If behaviourism (of any stripe) is going to be of use in artificial
> > INTELLIGENCE, it is going to have to give us a way to tell what
behaviours
> > are intelligent, and which are not. What are the posited
characteristics
> > that a behaviour must have in order for it to be considered an
intelligent
> > behaviour? And if you feel the question is irrelevant in a
behaviouristic
> > model, please explain why.
> >
> >
>
>
> You tell me what you mean by "intelligence", and I'll tell you if it can
> be built.

Um, that would be MY line, considering that I'm the computer science grad of
the group [grin].

>
> I know what I mean by it. :-)

And, somehow, you missed that the point of the question is really to get you
to tell me what you mean by that; in short, the challenge is for you to tell
me how behaviourism determines whether or not a behaviour is intelligent.

So far, there have been three replies and three non-answers ...

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