Artificial Intelligence's Assumption

Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped onto the other (the computer).

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That intelligence works with symbols and logic that can be replicated in other mediums.

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 Machinery of the Mind: Inside the New Science of Artificial Intelligence
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Johnson , George (2011-11-16), Machinery of the Mind: Inside the New Science of Artificial Intelligence, Crown, Retrieved on 2012-06-06
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