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science of common sense

When is a machine intelligent?

When does it understand?

What does creativity mean.

It has not been possible to formalize even a naive metaphysics well
enough to build a machine based on it.

reference to Moore

distinction between wants and goals

for each quality - when will we need to ascribe it to machines
and when will machines need to ascribe it to people

a child accepts names without assigning a referent confident that
they name something.  Having a definite referent in mind is an
advanced state of mind as is the idea that something named might
not have a referent.  To a child, a fictitious flying horse is
rather like a far away flying horse.

It seems to be possible to believ a proposition without knowing
precisely what it means.  In fact, no-one knows precisely what
any ordinary empirical proposition such  proposition("Palo Alto is
in California") means.  It seems best to regard statements of belief
as statements in an approximate theory - confident that the theory
will break down if inspected too closely.