Pike had asked these sorts of questions in the past - and seemed genuinely interested in the answer, as a general rule.
Spock did him the courtesy, then, of a genuine answer in return.
"It is a matter of artificial intelligence. In your Earth history, the philosophical concept of the Chinese Room argument was developed in challenge to the Turing test, in pursuit of further developing the concept of intentionality - an expression of what it means to truly understand a thing."
His enthusiasm for the subject was evident only in the eager line of his jaw, the rest of him composed and impassive even down to his calm and measured voice.
"My current project is to determine if it is possible to involve the Enterprise computer intelligence in a series of experiments that will determine with what degree of intentionality she acts."
((OOC - a quick and dirty explanation of the Chinese Room is here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room).))
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Date: 2009-12-03 07:10 pm (UTC)Spock did him the courtesy, then, of a genuine answer in return.
"It is a matter of artificial intelligence. In your Earth history, the philosophical concept of the Chinese Room argument was developed in challenge to the Turing test, in pursuit of further developing the concept of intentionality - an expression of what it means to truly understand a thing."
His enthusiasm for the subject was evident only in the eager line of his jaw, the rest of him composed and impassive even down to his calm and measured voice.
"My current project is to determine if it is possible to involve the Enterprise computer intelligence in a series of experiments that will determine with what degree of intentionality she acts."
((OOC - a quick and dirty explanation of the Chinese Room is here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room).))