First we'd have to figure out what "means" means. :-)
Brent On 9/6/2014 1:48 PM, John Mikes wrote:
Jeez - Liz, correction!!! /*(a lot of megabytes have been wasted because people don't agree on what something means)*/ you may have meant: ...on what we THINK a 'meaning' may be ...? Who knows what something (anything) REALLY means? - not me, for sure. John On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:06 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com <mailto:lizj...@gmail.com>> wrote: Jeez, and I thought intelligence was the easy one. But yes, using the same definitions is important, a lot of megabytes have been wasted because people don't agree on what something means (I won't mention free will...oops.) On 6 September 2014 09:18, John Mikes <jami...@gmail.com <mailto:jami...@gmail.com>> wrote: After reading lots of repeats by otherwise smart people on the topic: do we have a concensus on this list (narrow target enough?) about some identification of *intelligence? * (forget Wiki!) *_ _* I proposed the*/'inter-lego'/* classic, meaning to *_"read"_* (=understand act out, apply, etc.) the meanings BETWEEN the exactly worded lines (not as exactly spelled out verbatim). It requires a WIDER view, some anticipatory talent maybe, some combinatorical capability and so on). There was not too much appreciation (indeed: no reflections at all). On *_'artificial'_* I have a weaker opinion: in our usage of language the word directs my mind towards /_'speculative'_/ - as both man-confounded, or contraption-erected results - or both. (I wonder why 'my mind' does avert from the/_'naturally grown'_/ as artificial? Indeed Mme.Nature is also just human. Or so we think. Maybe I would lose my agnostic wisdom (ha ha) of unknowable and unfathomable pressures directing the *CHANGE* in the world). So: are we ready to vote for 'intelligence'? (Not the CIA, mind you!). John M
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