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Isn't the brain itself a good mix of general-purpose and special-purpose intelligence?
by stdbrouw 13y ago
Isn't the brain itself a good mix of general-purpose and special-purpose intelligence?
- arethuza 13y agoThat sounds like Minsky's "Society of Mind": http://web.media.mit.edu/~push/ExaminingSOM.html http://web.media.mit.edu/~push/ExaminingSOM.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind
- icot 13y agoThis. And also, is it truly a general purpose intelligence, or a special-purpose one which evolved into general by just extending the domain of application? I'd say that most of what is considered intelligence comes from pattern matching plus inference; and there is a number of 'illusions' and cognitive biases that trick the mind because one of these processes fails. This may for example by finding patterns where there is none, which is quite normal.