What is intuition ? Intuition is what we call Intelligence.

2013-06-14 Thread Roger Clough
What is intuition ? Intuition is what we call Intelligence. Only living creatures have any measure of it. You can't program it. Dr. Roger Clough NIST (ret.) 6/14/2013 See my Leibniz site at http://team.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

intuition as "wave collapse"

2013-01-09 Thread Roger Clough
After having discussed the collapse of a quantum field form of wavicle at a measurement probe, I wonder if ideas possibly enter consciousness in an analogous manner. Could they condense out of consciousness analogous to the collapse of a wavicle at a probe ?. Thus would be an intuitive idea.

intuition

2013-01-08 Thread Roger Clough
intuition and 1p Intuition (philosophy), immediate (not inferred) a priori knowledge or experiential belief n�tu�i�tion [in-too-ish-uh?n, -tyoo-] noun 1. direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension. 2. a fact, truth, etc

Re: Poincare on intuition in mathematics

2012-11-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 25 Nov 2012, at 20:53, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/25/2012 9:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 24 Nov 2012, at 14:00, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Poincare had a lot to say on intuition vs logic in mathematics. For one thing, the idea of continuity is an intuition. http://www

Re: Poincare on intuition in mathematics

2012-11-25 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/25/2012 9:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 24 Nov 2012, at 14:00, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal Poincare had a lot to say on intuition vs logic in mathematics. For one thing, the idea of continuity is an intuition. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/Poincare_Intuition.html

Re: On (platonic) intuition

2012-08-24 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 24.08.2012 21:59 John Clark said the following: On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Could you please tell me what an algorithm in a self-driving car is responsible for intuition? Any algorithm based on stochastics or heuristics, in other words most of the algorithms in self

Re: On (platonic) intuition

2012-08-24 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > Could you please tell me what an algorithm in a self-driving car is > responsible for intuition? > Any algorithm based on stochastics or heuristics, in other words most of the algorithms in self-driving car software. John K Clark

Re: On (platonic) intuition

2012-08-24 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 23.08.2012 21:33 John Clark said the following: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:01 PM, meekerdb wrote: Do computers have intuition ? Certainly. The self driving cars that the people at Google and others have had so much success with lately wouldn't work without intuition; the car

Re: Re: On (platonic) intuition

2012-08-24 Thread Roger Clough
-- From: John Clark Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-23, 15:33:15 Subject: Re: On (platonic) intuition On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:01 PM, meekerdb wrote: > Do computers have intuition ? Certainly. The self driving cars that the people at Google and others have had so much success wi

Re: On (platonic) intuition

2012-08-23 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:01 PM, meekerdb wrote: > > Do computers have intuition ? > > Certainly. The self driving cars that the people at Google and others have had so much success with lately wouldn't work without intuition; the car's memory banks are filled with statist

Monads and intuition

2012-08-23 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb You said " According to you, computers are never aware of anything, so everything they produce is intuition." No, intuition is an experience. You need awareness even though it may be subconscious. it is known, however, that monads however are capable of subcon

On intuition and Trust (faith)

2012-08-23 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Mikes I think intuition is something like looking for a familiar face in a crowd if you are lost. That somehow has to do with context or memory. One way home feels more right than the other way home. Maybe you don't know the name of the street, or even if the street itself

Re: intuition

2012-08-22 Thread meekerdb
On 8/22/2012 1:04 PM, John Mikes wrote: Brent Meeker wrote on list: /Intuition is when a seemingly true proposition pops into your head and you aren't aware of any preceding thought process leading to it. According to (you?) computers are never aware of anything, so everything they produ

intuition

2012-08-22 Thread John Mikes
Brent Meeker wrote on list: *Intuition is when a seemingly true proposition pops into your head and you aren't aware of any preceding thought process leading to it. According to (you?) computers are never aware of anything, so everything they produce is intuition*. Brent Dear Brent, to

Re: On (platonic) intuition

2012-08-22 Thread meekerdb
On 8/22/2012 1:38 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi John Clark Do computers have intuition ? I believe that intuition is necessary to solve a puzzle or prove a mathematical or logical stratement. To produce something new or previously unknown. Intuiition may be like inference, a form of synthetic

On (platonic) intuition

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Clark Do computers have intuition ? I believe that intuition is necessary to solve a puzzle or prove a mathematical or logical stratement. To produce something new or previously unknown. Intuiition may be like inference, a form of synthetic thinking, versus analytic thinking. Only