On 8/3/2012 3:57 PM, John Mikes wrote:
Stephen and Bruno:
enjoyable reading. About that darn "intelligence"?
Dear John,
Intelligence is a hard one! What might be intelligent by one
measure is bone-headed stupidity for another. Maybe it is an n-th order
effect...
I have my roots in Latin so my take is "inter-lego" - to READ between
the lines (or words).
Right, this means that it is context dependent, thus forever
removing it from the domain of universals and global measures.
I add some (believed) points to it: we like to go to the utmost of our
'knowledge - base' with (intelligent-ha ha) thinking and HAVE
(hopefully) a chance to "shave off" that borderline towards a bit
more. This comes in with 'creativity' as well.
Mhm, creativity, novelty and so forth are deeply non-recursively
enumerable. They can never be accurately anticipated. BTW, this is why
all forms of futurism are inevitably wrong. It is impossible to foresee
the effects of future innovation. But novelty and innovation can most
certainly be suppressed by present tense decisions.
So "OUR" (whomever Bruno allows to include for 'us') - not machine -
intelligence goes "a bit" beyond the hardware, whatever we postulate
for such. (A reason why I deny/ at least doubt/ some "artificial
intelligence": we cannot 'program' or even 'read' beyond the
limitations of our existing knowledge).
I prefer the term "organism" to "machine" for this exact reason.
Machines are laden with the preconception of perfect predicability, thus
when they happen to behave in novel ways it is a surprise to even be feared.
Sorry, Bruno, in my (believed!) infinite complexity I must go beyond
any 'machine' pattern and if you just include it into your 'universal'
qualia I will not call it a 'machine'. But**this is a 'naming
question". Semantics? */Description/* vs The */Thing/* Itself (if we
allow such).
That is the fundamental duality that Plato tried so desperately to
wrestle with. I think he did well with the "Divided Line" concept, but
his wisdom has been so distorted to be almost the antithesis of what it
was established to be.
With omniscience there is no intelligence. (J. Mikes)
/applause
Cheerio
JohnM
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Onward!
Stephen
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
~ Francis Bacon
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