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they make it very hard to separate science from marketing Isn't this true for pretty much any science done ever? It only becomes a problem when marketing is go

• pron 9y ago
  > Isn't this true for pretty much any science done ever? Maybe, but when it comes to a commercial entity I'm more suspicious. > How would you judge a neuroscience paper importance? I wouldn't; I'd let a neuroscientist judge. It's just that I believe most of us would hear of a major breakthrough in neuroscience. > what would convince you that a program displays the learning and reasoning abilities of some advanced invertebrates? It's hard to say precisely (largely because we don't know what intelligence is, let alone have a good quantitative measure for it), but if you read about insect behavior it's very clear that we're nowhere near that (just as it's clear people are more intelligent than spiders even though there are probably mental tasks that spiders can perform better/faster than humans). So ask me again when the question becomes harder to answer :)