Does our little Flipper have a mind of its own? I believe so, yes. Personally, I believe being able to perceive the outside world and act accordingly is more than enough to consider anything as having a mind. With the mind we gave it, it is able to use on its own its four sensors and control its various motors to move and look around, and more importantly, flip things! Is it intelligent though? That’s a bit of a more difficult question.I feel like ‘intelligence’ is a highly subjective word, so I would be very hesitant to call our robot intelligent as it just follows a simple set of instructions; which very possibly is just how even we humans work, just with a slightly larger set of instructions. But also, its behavior is limited to what it can do with its physical body, so even if it was running the most brilliant program ever, its few sensors and motors make it difficult for it to display proper “intelligent” behaviors. 
After working on this project and the various discussions in class, I feel like my perception on AI has definitely changed a bit. Not that I didn’t believe machines couldn’t match human intelligence, as I’ve always thought that’s just a matter of time, but I had never really properly stopped to think about what makes human or animal intelligence different from that of a machine and I now believe that difference to be, as Darwin would say, one of degree and not kind.

Julian