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What if "intelligence? is a red herring and really what we're talking about is conscious awareness? And what if that's a naturally occurring property like gravi
by subdane 12y ago
What if "intelligence? is a red herring and really what we're talking about is conscious awareness? And what if that's a naturally occurring property like gravity (but more rare)? I'm not a physicist or a mystic but my lay knowledge says that some quantum experiments require an observer in order to resolve themselves. I suspect it would be more productive to be looking for artificial consciousness.
- jostmey 12y agoYour right, Intelligence is a tricky word to define. I would define it as the ability to predict an outcome better than random chance would allow. Hence, Natural Selection is not a form of intelligence because the mutations that drive Evolution occur randomly without purpose. Intelligence on the other hand would be able to perform better than a brute force trial and error attack.
- unchocked 12y ago"Naturally occurring" is a red herring itself. Consciousness must be a property of a system rather than its elements. Whatever the constraints on systems that can be conscious, it is not going to come down to "natural" vs. "artificial", unless mystical metaphysics turns out to be true. So the answer to your hypothetical is mysticism as reality.