Brookshear, Smith, and Brylow (2011, p.500) refers to a "supernatural intelligence" that our ancestors might have attributed to inanimate machines. Based on the definition, this is in contrast to Sokolowski's (1988, p.48) definition of “natural intelligence,” which is associated with the human brain. Artificial IntelligenceSokolowski (1988, p.45) offers a distinction between two different perspectives for considering the word "artificial" as it is used in the term "artificial intelligence". The example of light production (an action performed by humans or through human technology) is given as opposed to light having a natural source (not from humans or not produced by humans), with the first reference to "artificial light". Another illustrious example is that of a flower made of paper, to resemble a real flower, but it is evident that it is not real, once again the original refers to an 'artificial flower'. Sokolowski believes that, unlike the flower, 'artificial light' is essentially indistinguishable from 'natural light'. I would differ from Sokolowski in my definition of the artificial, not distinguishing between light and paper in this way. The argument in favor of the paper flower appearance is still too ambiguous. To explain: For most of my experience with artificial light, it has been distinguishable from natural light. In my corner of the world, natural or daylight bulbs only recently became available. Therefore, I have to argue that the comparison between natural and artificial could have been done differently by someone with a different perspective. Similarly, let's consider the opposite for the paper flower, and propose that someone make a flower that looks very real... in the center of the paper... capable of functioning within any set parameter; parameters that may well be set beyond what is naturally possible. Works Cited Brookshear, J.G., Smith, D.T., & Brylow, D. (2011) Computer Science: An Overview. 11th ed. Prentice Hall / ADDISON WESLEY Publishing Company Incorporated. Available at: http://books.google.com/books?id=LbtoewAACAAJ.Fogel, D. (2009) Artificial Intelligence through Simulated Evolution. Wiley-IEEE Press. Available at: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5311738 (accessed February 9, 2014). simulate - Cambridge Dictionaries Online (2014). Available at: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/simulate (accessed 9 February 2014). Sokolowski, R. (1988) "Natural and artificial intelligence", Daedalus. JSTOR, 117(1), pp. 45–64. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20025138 (Accessed: February 09, 2014).