> I don't accept your definition of "intelligence" if you think that makes sense. Systems must be able to know things in the way that humans (or at least living

> I don't accept your definition of "intelligence" if you think that makes sense. Systems must be able to know things in the way that humans (or at least living creatures) do, because intelligence is exactly the ability to acquire such knowledge. According to whom? There is certainly no single definition of intelligence, but most people who have studied it (psychologists, in the main) view intelligence as a descriptor of the capabilities of a system - e.g., it can solve problems, it can answer questions correctly, etc. (This is why we call some computer systems "artificially" intelligent.) It seems pretty clear that you're confusing intelligence with the internal processes of a system (e.g. mind, consciousness - "knowing things in the way that humans do").