Re: (non-flame post) good chess programs intelligent?

From: billwald@juno.com
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 12:28:49 EDT

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    > Can one teach a dog, or a cat, or a
    >dolphin, or a tree, or a bacterium, or a virus, or a rock to play chess
    >well? No. These listed entities don’t have the ability to retain
    the
    >vast amounts of information needed, or the ability to process that
    >information properly, to play chess well. But computers do have those
    >abilities, which sets them apart from!

    There is no way to infer from the nature of the universe if God ( as
    first cause or intermediate cause) is in the nature of a free moral agent
    or a computer?

    billwald@juno.com

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