On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 10:05:20AM +0200, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > > However, without such a measure, a statement that life is mostly > unintelligent is ill-defined.
Informal perhaps, but hardly ill-defined. Much the same could be said about the concept life. > > In general, if we assume inexorable physicals laws, for example the > M-theory from Grad Design, then it is unclear to me what the meaning > of the next statement could be: > > "The behavior of this conglomerate of particles and fields is more > intelligent than of that conglomerate of particle and fields." > That is because you are looking at it at the wrong level. You need to take into account emergence. > Evgenii > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
