00100		Professor   Lighthill   of   Cambridge   University   is    a
00200	distinguished  hydrodynamicist with a recent interest in applications
00300	to biology, e.g. to the flow of  blood.   His  review  of  artificial
00400	intelligence was at the request of Brian Flowers, head of the Science
00500	Research Council of Great Britain which is the main funding body  for
00600	university research.
00700	He claims little previous acquaintance with the field, but refers to
00800	a large number of authors whose works he consulted, although he doesn't
00900	refer to any specific papers.
01000	
01100		The first thing that strikes the AI reader of his report is his
01200	classification of the work in the field into three categories, A, B, and
01300	C.  A is applications which he likes, and C is connections to psychology
01400	and neurophysiology which he also likes, and B stands for "bridge"
01500	between the other two and also for "building robots" both of which he
01600	dislikes.  He remarks that activities in B can be justified only in so
01700	far as they make a connection between A and C.
01800	
01900		He ignores the contention made by several of the writers he
02000	refers to that artificial intelligence is an independent field, the
02100	study of intellectual mechanisms apart from their applications or
02200	their realization in the brains of animals or humans.  "Ignore" is the
02300	right word, because he doesn't mention the contention even to disagree
02400	with it.