In How The Mind Works, Steven
Pinker writes:
“Intelligence,
then, is the ability to attain goals in the face of obstacles by means of
decisions based on rational (truth-obeying) rules. The computer scientists
Allen Newell and Herbert Simon fleshed this idea out further by noting that
intelligence consists of specifying a goal, assessing the current situation to
see how it differs from the goal, and applying a set of operations that reduce
the difference.”
Are we setting any goals to reduce
violence?
