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No single thing is a "true sign of intelligence", that is to ignore the mutual interdependence of things. You can't have imagination without any knowledge.
by itistoday 16y ago
No single thing is a "true sign of intelligence", that is to ignore the mutual interdependence of things. You can't have imagination without any knowledge.
- stcredzero 16y agoJeff Hawkins has a good general framework for intelligence. X is more intelligent than Y if X can make better predictions given the same information as Y. X is more intelligent than Y if X can make predictions as good as Y's with less information.
- itistoday 16y agoThat sounds like a good proposal on a definition of intelligence, but it doesn't tell you why someone would be good at predicting something, which is what my point was: that when you try to claim that any one thing is the reason for someone's ability to, in this case, predict something, you're ignoring the multitudes of other reasons that are all interrelated.
- stcredzero 16y agoAll the various forms of intelligence can be seen as a form of predictive capability. For example, coordination of many elements or one's own body parts involves making moves which avoid chaos, collision, or some other dysfunction. Avoidance is a kind of prediction.
- tokenadult 16y agoI went to the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawkins#Neuroscience http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawkins#Neuroscience to make sure you were referring to the author whose book I have perused before. I will note for the record that Hawkins has not won wide acceptance for his view of intelligence among other researchers to date.
- pook 16y agohttp://lesswrong.com/lw/tx/optimization/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/tx/optimization/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/va/measuring_optimization_power/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/va/measuring_optimization_power/ Eliezer Yudkowsky described this pretty well.