On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Shane Mage wrote:
> Miles Jackson asks:
>
> >Consider: what if we learn more and more about human
> >cognition and we discover it's nothing like
> >machine output?
>
> Then we'll design machines that utilize what we know of
> human cognition to perform cognitive functions better.
>
> Why is there such a tendency to deny that cognitive
> functions are beyond the eventual reach of a technology that
> is now scarcely even newborn?
>
> Shane Mage
Good point. We'll have to see what happens. Given the fact that psychologists--after 100 years of theory and research!-- have not even come to a consensus on what intelligence is in human beings, I guess I'm not expecting rapid advancements.
Miles