🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4100006@aisunk> ywlee@aisunk.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>/* Written  1:34 am  Feb 25, 1990 by news@caen.engin.umich.edu in aisunk:comp.ai */
>>To this end, I would like to propose a tentative enumeration of 
>>behaviors that are "more intelligent".  
>>...
>>        - Occasionally abandon formal reasoning methods to 
>>	  simply explore patterns in the information at its
>>	  disposal.  (Dreams? Creativity?)
>>
>
>I don't think this part is necessary. Do we get creativity
>by abandoning formal reasoning methods? Well, I doubt it. 
>
>ywlee.

I always jump to a conclusion, then argue my way back.  Works for me :-)

More seriously, I think a better word for the activity in question
is "play", rather than "dreaming" etc.  Come to think of it, I'm sure
that I would deny the intelligence of any organism that was incapable
of playing.  Children seem to gain quite a bit from this, starting with
babies' babbling.  It may be like "generate and test".

I wonder why "peekaboo" is such a hit with infants?  That doesn't seem
to involve any learning.  Maybe object permanence or something.

Don't mind me, I'm just playing with ideas ...