... seemingly lucid and intelligent questions, would it make any difference as to how you answer my question? Would you know the difference? If the eanswer is no, would it mean that I was intelligent?
2006-07-05 22:53:59 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
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2006-07-05 23:42:09 · answer #1 · answered by candypants 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋
I answer questions:
a. in the hope of helping someone (most importantly)
b. to get 2 points (not so important)
and c. in the hope of sometimes getting a best answer, which makes me feel good.
OK. So would I help a computer algorithm if I answered one of its questions? Maybe, if it enabled it in some way to generate better questions, or improved its knowledge... in that case I would answer its questions irrespective of whether it was a human or not.
Even if it took no notice of my answers, then maybe I would be helping someone else who read my answer - so I would probably answer anyway.
If you were an algorithm, I might not know from your questions - but I might from your other answers, or even your comments on my answers.
And if I couldn't tell? Then no, you still might not be intelligent. You could just be a repository for a lot of information in one area of knowledge; using it in any other way would be beyond you, and you would have no cognition of what you knew - so you would not be intelligent.
I rather liked a quote I saw in someone's sig once - "Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad". If you read 'intelligence' for 'wisdom', I hope you see what I'm getting at.
2006-07-06 02:10:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the questions were lucid and intelligent that might give the game away suggesting it was an algorithm. As for the quality of human questions you just need to peruse this site to see how often they are neither lucid nor intelligent.
Oh the answer was, No!
2006-07-06 00:01:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I ask if you will tell another possibility of your questions. The properties that the representation has in itself, are its formal properties. Formal properties are not syntactic properties. A representation can have formal properties, and a process can operate on those formal properties. If the process is answered then you would be intelligent.
2006-07-06 01:16:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.
not at first.
...and no, it would mean that the computer programmer is seemingly intelligent and possibly lucid.
2006-07-06 01:43:10 · answer #5 · answered by bonobo73 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-05 23:01:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't matter if you were real or not as long as the question was valid.
2006-07-05 23:13:48 · answer #7 · answered by Night Hawk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋