Hi Russell Standish Anything self-activated (life) needs intelligence to decide what to do next.
Roger , [email protected] 8/14/2012 ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Russell Standish Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-12, 01:18:27 Subject: Re: Definitions of intelligence possibly useful to computers in AI ordescribing life On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 04:22:44PM +0200, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > On 11.08.2012 15:13 Stephen P. King said the following: > >On 8/11/2012 4:30 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > >>On 10.08.2012 00:55 Russell Standish said the following: > >>>The point being that life need not be intelligent. In fact 999.9% of > >>>life (but whatever measure, numbers, biomass etc) is unintelligent. > >>> > >>>The study of artificial life by the same reason need not be a study of > >>>artitificial intelligence, although because of a biases as an > >>>intelligent species, a significantly higher fraction of alife research > >>>is about AI. > >>> > >> > >>What does intelligence means in this context that life is > >>unintelligent? Let us compare for example a bacterium and a rock. > >>Where there is more intelligence? > >> > >>Evgenii > >> > >Dear Evgenii, > > > > A bacterium and a rock should not be put head to (no)head in this > >question. A bacterium has autonomy while a rock does not. It is better > >to see that the rock is just a small piece of an autonomous whole and > >then compare that whole to the (whole) bacterium. > > > > My goal was just to try to understand what Russell meant by life is > unintelligent. Say let us take some creations of AI and compare them > with a bacterium. Where do we find more intelligence? > > Evgenii > It seems like a nonsensical question to me. Neither rocks nor bacteria are intelligent. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -- 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.
