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Been thinking about this movie recently, and the possibility that intelligence could be an inherently social phenomenon. It seems reproduction is easier/better
by beefman 3y ago
Been thinking about this movie recently, and the possibility that intelligence could be an inherently social phenomenon. It seems reproduction is easier/better than unlimited individual growth – Jeremy England claimed to find an explanation of this in non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Maybe similar reasoning applies to intelligence, so that intelligence essentially requires multiple communicating units...
- jacknews 3y agoBrains are already separately communicating units, internally. Is there a bandwidth limit for intelligence to emerge? What would the mechanism be? I'm quite willing to believe some imposed constraints help generate complex structure, I'm sure some graph/connectivity/complexity theory might be revelant.
- rbanffy 3y ago> Brains are already separately communicating units, internally. The mind seems to be an emerging phenomenon that seems to happen when a brain evolves in a direction that needs keeping a complex context over a long-ish time. As LLMs show, it's possible they don't even need a brain-like structure. I like to think of LLMs as our first contact with completely alien minds. They are alien enough we can't really agree whether they are even intelligent.
- beefman 3y agoYes, the principle seems to apply at different scales. Humans reproduce and are made of cells that reproduce, etc. At some point in individual growth, it makes sense to copy what you have rather than continue growing. How to characterize this point in a way that works at any scale is a natural question...