ability to analyse, fastly, logically, the big picture of different things and make the right decision in the right time |
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Please define intelligence. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
ability to analyse, fastly, logically, the big picture of different things and make the right decision in the right time |
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I wondered about this once, and as I tend to do I first looked for other uses of the word for a clue. In the military intelligence means the gathering, storage and transmission of relevant information so it can be studied and used effectively. I think the exact same definition applies here. |
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I would say intelligence is being able to store and process data in a specific manner. As that I would call, lifeforms, DNA as well as computers a form of intelligence. |
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Personal Records so far: Max lucids per day: 2 | Max lucids per week: 4 | Max lucids per month: 8 | Max dreams recalled in one night: 17
Longest lucid dream: ~35min | Highest flight: zoomed out of common existence [WTF?] | Fastest speed: FTL | DILD/EILD/DEILD [X] | WILD/VILD [X] | MILD/FILD/HILD [ ]
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If information is in the form of words, then DNA would be sentences. Not intelligence or intelligent, but rather a medium in which information is encoded and stored. |
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How do you distinguish a medium through which information is stored (and also utilized for action) and intelligence in itself? |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Personal Records so far: Max lucids per day: 2 | Max lucids per week: 4 | Max lucids per month: 8 | Max dreams recalled in one night: 17
Longest lucid dream: ~35min | Highest flight: zoomed out of common existence [WTF?] | Fastest speed: FTL | DILD/EILD/DEILD [X] | WILD/VILD [X] | MILD/FILD/HILD [ ]
Interested to know how I got 17 dreams in one single night? And how I think I still could Improve? Check out my new and improved Dream Recall Compendium: The Dream Recall Compendium
Intelligence is the ability to comprehend the connections between things. Artificial intelligence is (as of now) out of our reach because we can tell a computer: |
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The ability to recognize patterns and solve problems. |
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Natural Selection is a form of Guess and Check problem solving, could you agree? How does an intelligent being solve problems? There is definitely a functioning logical system capable of making connections but this is really just another tool that's been naturally selected. It's not the only tool, we also come complete with an imagination function allowing us to test ideas out and follow them to their logical conclusions. But is this system, in itself, intelligence? |
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Last edited by Omnis Dei; 10-05-2011 at 06:57 AM.
Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Sorry, I should have clarified. This is still based on how I understand intelligence and may not reflect the view of others: |
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As with many things, we have trouble defining intelligence because the word is based on an idea we get. A feeling we get when we meet different people, that they are on different levels mentally. We can define boundaries, but there are going to be exceptions, and we're going to find problems with any specific boundaries we set. |
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Basically this. |
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>Implying intelligence is inherent in something |
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Intelligence in standard English context refers to the individual's capacity to process information in any situation and deduce logical explanations and/or a response to said situation. |
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The ability to consciously gather and interpret information, and relate it to a multitude of other "things", scenarios, past experiences, and hypotheticals. |
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I agree. My point wasn't so much to say that "because we cant with certainty deduce that computers are conscious therefore they are conscious." but what I mean is humans are not the ultimate measure of who is and who is not conscious, keep in mind that many cultures believed animals to be automaton because we could not place ourselves in their subjective experience. I do not know many people today who still believe animals cannot possess subjective qualities like the capacity to feel pain, emotions, etc. Likewise we cannot place ourselves in the subjective experience of another human being. |
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It's all about patterns, pattern recognition and pattern manipulation. It's why those people who never do their work or study can get B's on everything. |
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"For a long time it gave me nightmares, having to witness an injustice like that. It was a constant reminder of how unfair this world can be, I can still hear them taunting him. 'Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids!'... How come they just couldn't give him some cereal?"
You can train a dog to recognize patterns, as long as the patterns relate directly to getting fed. You can also program a computer to recognize patterns. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Yes but the dog cannot manipulate them of his own free will that's the key, putting the patterns into action (there could be a genius who never shows it and you would never know), also patterns is the closest word to what I'm going for but maybe not exactly it. That's pretty much all of my useful (I hope) input, so I will stop now thanks for reading. |
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"For a long time it gave me nightmares, having to witness an injustice like that. It was a constant reminder of how unfair this world can be, I can still hear them taunting him. 'Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids!'... How come they just couldn't give him some cereal?"
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