This section focuses on a very complex and maybe even genious computer program named Jumbo. Jembo's purpose was to be able to imitate human cognition that takes place when one is playing the newspaper game "Jumble." One interesting property of Jumbo is that it has no knowledge of the English dictionary, instead it uses pre-set rules that apply to the English language to construct 'english-like' words.
Another interesting part of this section is how intelligence is defined, which is as follows:
"intelligence emerges out of the interactions of many thousands of parallel processes that take place within miliseconds and are inaccessible to introspection." According to this definition it seems like it would be nearly impossible to re-create human-level cognition, but I have a feeling some of these people are going to die trying and may even achieve such a feat.
I find it very impressive that a program that is designed to form English words out of scrambled letters can do so with out "knowing" the words of the enlgish language. I can't imagine how complex the code must be for such a program.
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