re: Calculator examples, I kinda see them both as information systems that achieve a result but there's a phase difference in where the information is stored.

re: Calculator examples, I kinda see them both as information systems that achieve a result but there's a phase difference in where the information is stored. Similar to how space is 4D such that with relativity going faster in a spatial dimension kind of "borrows" from the time dimension (in a hand wavy way). By analogy, you can have something that's purely a lookup table, or on the other hand, completely based on an algorithm, and the full lookup table is kind of "borrowing" from the algorithmic dimension of the information system space and vice-verse the fully algorithmic version is borrowing from the hardcoded dimension of the information system space. Under the condition that you're adding integers below N, then if you consider BOTH the (hardcoded, algorithmic) as a singular space (as with 4D space time) then they are equivalent. Need to work on this theory further to make it more understandable, but I think this way about intelligence. Intelligence sits as a pattern in the information system space that can range anywhere from hardcoded to algorithmic (if we choose to orthogonalize the space this way). But what actually matters is the system's future impact on it's local laws of physics, and for that purpose both implementations are equivalent. Edit: Conversation with GPT-4 about this https://sharegpt.com/c/Sbs4XgI https://sharegpt.com/c/Sbs4XgI