Tony: The reason I make the distinction is actually immensely practical in the discussion. It provides intermediary steps between the cut and dry definitions. Intelligence has to do more with memory and function than it does understanding and reasoning. The ability to learn, remember, recall, communicate, reason, plan, and apply are all far far beyond the scope of simple intelligence. > > Tony: In David's view on the other hand, the complexity is not much greater than things we are already able to accomplish with fairly basic computer programs. Define a set of tasks, states, parameters, and variables, and then give the instructs as to how to handle them.-Thank you and right on the money.