00100			IS HUG HUGGABLE?
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00500		Bad news sells best because we can say "Thank God - it
00600	didnt happen to me" and thus we reassure ourselves that we are
00700	still alive.
00800		Newspaper reporters are trained to get the name, age, sex (if
00900	unclear), occupation and address of agents and/or victims. Presumably
01000	most readers utilize these variables for their personal  calculus  in
01100	comparing the self with other people.
01200		Thus:
01300	Name - Do I know him? Have I heard of him? Is he a member of
01400	       my groups (ethnic, religious, etc.)?
01500	Age - Is he close or distant in age? (What happens to the elders
01600	      and the youth doesn't happen to me).
01700	Sex - (The opposite sex has its own problems).
01800	Occupation - Is this my work or related to it?
01900	Address - Does he live near me? What part of town is this? What
02000	          groups live there?
02100		I would hence change the beginning question from "what do you
02200	know  after you have understood the story" to "what do you know after
02300	you have interpreted (been affected by) the story?"
02400		An  intelligent  organism or machine, in the enduring pursuit
02500	of its interests, intentions, or values, can change its  behavior  in
02600	accordance  with changing circumstances. To change one needs relevant
02700	information about what happens to others as a  source  of  analogical
02800	reasoning.  Say machine A, not being able to identify with Hug except
02900	perhaps as a person to whom a  bad  thing  happened,  interprets  the
03000	story as one of race relations and economic injustice. Say machine B,
03100	with a  world-view  analogous  to  a  New  York  furniture  salesman,
03200	interprets  (is affected by) the story as a warning about what he has
03300	to watch out for. Which machine is intelligent? Both are.  They  will
03400	have  some  overlap  in  what they know (i.e. what questions they can
03500	answer)but there is an unbounded set of questions whose answers  they
03600	do not share.
03700		(Incidentally I would add to the "categories of  information"
03800	one  called  "About  values",  i.e.  what is desirable or undesirable
03900	about situations).
04000		John  used  as  "grist for the mill" a chess problem from the
04100	Scientific American. This problem is relevant to his interests and is
04200	now  in  long  term memory. In that issue there is also an article on
04300	the biological control of dung. Quick now - who controls it?
04500		Thus  I  contend  that an intelligent program or machine must
04600	contain  a  lattice  or  semilattice   of   strategies   insuring   a
04700	continuation  or  enhancement  of  its  existence. Its knowledge will
04800	reflect what is considers essential and inessential to its interests.
04900	Otherwise  everything  or nothing will be relevant. In the first case
05000	it  will  flounder  from  an  overload  of  information  and   become
05100	psychotic.  In  the second case it will have so little information as
05200	to be uninteresting to anything else intelligent and  will  die  from
05300	neglect.