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Deeper than that, everything hinges on defining intelligence as what is solvable/not solvable in theory given infinite resources (time etc). So any process that
by tbrownaw 16y ago
Deeper than that, everything hinges on defining intelligence as what is solvable/not solvable in theory given infinite resources (time etc). So any process that can blindly enumerate all solutions to a problem (no matter how often some wrong solutions might be repeated) is just as "intelligent" as if it could solve the problem in constant or log* or whatever time. This has the interesting result of us being by definition intelligently designed, since the random mutation / natural selection process is maximally intelligent (can result in solutions (possibly through an unbounded number of intermediates such as humans) to any problem that has a solution).
- stcredzero 16y agoClearly, a practical definition of intelligence needs to include time. Otherwise, any problem whose solution can be described as a number and quickly checked could eventually be solved by a counter.