Many insist on a definition of intelligence. But Minsky doesn't want to take this bait, apart from capturing the lay notion of intelligence: "Our minds contain processes that enable us to solve problems we consider difficult. `Intelligence' is our name for whichever of those processes we don't yet understand."
(NB: In many respects, I like this approach -- we waste far too much time arguing about what intelligence is, when we could be discovering new properties of the mind. If anyone disagrees with this view, just spend a little time following any discussion of intelligence or consciousness that appears in sci.cognitive, sci.psychology, or comp.ai.philosophy!)
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