The intellect

There are different points of view on the problem what should be considered the intellect. The analytic approach says that it is the analysis of the higher nervous system to the lowest level and the further reproduction of its functions.
Some specialists consider the intellect to be the ability of rational, motivated choice making in the conditions of the lack of information. In other word the intellectual program is considered to be the program of activity (not obligatory formed on base of the modern computers) that may choose from the certain number of alternatives. For example, it is able to make the choice where to go "if you go to the left" and "if you go to the right", etc.
Epistemology is another science that is closely connected with the artificial intelligence. In fact this science is the sphere of philosophy. The philosophers that investigate the problems of epistemology solve the similar problems that are solved by the engineers of the AI in the point how to use information and knowledge.
The production of knowledge from the data is one of the basic problems of the intellectual analysis of data. There are different approaches to this problem solving including the problems based on the neural networks technologies.
The problem of the artificial intelligence from the aesthetic point of view is also very important. If machines receive the possibility to think and will get the possibilities of self-awareness having the feelings and emotions, then what makes the person to be the person and the machine to be the machine.
