hm...*me thinking further*...so there'd be no way to know if inside the room was nothing more than Babelfish - unless you tripped it up with figures of speech or entredes.
>it seems plausible that something could also be intelligent without behaving intelligently. admittedly, my example was of something that could not behave (independently) at all.
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Date: 2010-01-10 12:31 am (UTC)hm...*me thinking further*...so there'd be no way to know if inside the room was nothing more than Babelfish - unless you tripped it up with figures of speech or entredes.
>it seems plausible that something could also be intelligent without behaving intelligently.
admittedly, my example was of something that could not behave (independently) at all.