However, Lycan perceives the word “intelligent” as too generalized, and goes to compose his own definition: where intelligence is the ability to provide responses and to be able to adapt to unexpected situations. Because humans possess these traits, we have intelligence, in contrast to machines (such as can-openers). The difference between humans and these machines are found further in his definition of “intelligence”, where intelligent creatures are information-sensitive creatures. Information-intelligent creatures are able to register, store, and use information. Lycan then proposes that based off of that definition of intelligence, computers can be considered as intelligent, as it too, does the same processing with information like we do. Yet, he back-tracks and says that though a computer may have intelligence by his definition, it …show more content…
He continues by saying that because Harry is an unpredictable machine, and unpredictableness is one of the core qualities of humans. If we agree with the original argument that Lycan proposed, then it is viable that Harry has his own mental processes without being influenced, therefore, Harry satisfies the definition of that free