Yeah there's definitely instinctual and then "lived/learnt" intelligence. Not sure about the biological mechanism for the latter becoming the former. I was thi

Yeah there's definitely instinctual and then "lived/learnt" intelligence. Not sure about the biological mechanism for the latter becoming the former. I was thinking about this the other day actually, how all of our advanced behaviours and emotions and society are really just formed on the foundation of basic biological principles/evolution. Every supposedly complex behavior can be explained by this. The ultimate meaning of life is to live long enough to pass on genes if you're fit enough to make this happen, then you age and for all your learned experience you will become slow and eventually be the gazelle at the rear of the herd that the lions catch, saving the younger newer generations. With the possibility of one of those younger gazelle also dying beside you, if it wasn't aware or fast enough - preventing it from passing on genes. Even complex and strong emotions were evolved for a purpose, those that could empathise and work together did better, same with language. Then we get side effects like depression etc in the same way that you can physically injure ourself, our minds can be injured as well. Basically spent a couple hours thinking about the future of machine learning.