[Synapse elist] short response

[Reva Stone]

Hello

It has been very interesting to see the diversity of the conceptual 
approaches that have been taken as a result of the questions I posed.  
When I asked the questions, I felt they were not directly answerable but 
served as points of departure for beginning discussion. To me, AI is an 
amalgam of incredibly complex systems and ideas that is still being 
heavily theorized. The fascination has been the investigation of things 
that are not yet fully understood.  I have been interested in the number 
of responses that felt the issues could be answered by equating 
cognition, perception, reasoning, speech, memory, choice etc. with 
information or what Erika called a "computational world view".  I guess 
what I am saying late at night is, in a computational info model for 
life and intelligence such as Gordana talked about, where is there room 
for experience, personality and the intentionality that Daniel mentioned.

Reva