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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1516 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
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zi ko Member (Idle past 3632 days) Posts: 578 Joined: |
You use such a broad definition of intelligence that it is reduced to nothing.
I give to the word intelligence the meaning Shapiro and Buhler give.
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zi ko Member (Idle past 3632 days) Posts: 578 Joined: |
McClintock quotes are describing qualities to cells using grandiose terms that don't really apply
She is a Nobel price winner.
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Taq Member Posts: 10007 Joined: Member Rating: 6.3 |
I don't think cells "think". Just react intelligently, according to natural laws.
How do you determine if a reaction is intelligent or not?
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Taq Member Posts: 10007 Joined: Member Rating: 6.3 |
I think the main desagreement lstems from the fear of current evolutionsts to accept other definition about intelligence could shutter the basis of their favorit evolution theory. Why do you need to redefine intelligence to begin with? If you have to redefine intelligence then it tells me that what you are describing as intelligent is nothing of the kind.
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Straggler Member Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
Ziko writes: I don't think cells "think". Then how can they be intelligent?
Taq writes: Can you describe something that is not intelligent? Ziko writes: Not really. Then you have rendered the term entirely meaningless.
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Straggler Member Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
Ziko writes: As i have answered to 1.61803 in post 143 , there is something that is not intelligent, the physical laws. I see you have changed your mind. Good for you. Now can you explain how a rock is intelligent but gravity isn't?
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Panda Member (Idle past 3725 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined: |
GDR writes:
Yes, I agree with the almost infinite amount of 'inputs'. but the complexity does make determinism less likely. My mood can be affected by the moods of another person or persons, whose mood is affected by other person or persons ad infinitum. In addition it is then affected by weather, how much sleep I got, the comment someone made to me yesterday, my health etc. All these are in addition to your point about chemicals in the body.But Determinism is completely unaffected by either simplicity or complexity. It is neither more nor less likely in a complex system. One form of Determinism is Necessitarianism: quote:It is worth reading Wiki: Determinism as it goes into a lot more detail than I can. GDR writes:
Natural Selection favours apes with brains. ...I also want to repeat the point that determinism makes intelligence unnecessary and thus there would be no reason for it to evolve.Our brains evolved because mutations occurred to our ape ancestors. The mutations occurred because of ambient radiation. Ambient radiation existed because of how the earth was formed. etc... There is no 'necessity' involved.
GDR writes:
Neurons can make and break connections to other neurons creating different electro-chemical pathways through our brains. This results in giving us abilities that we class as 'intelligence' (e.g. problem solving, reasoning, learning, etc.). The wood provides a base on which to anchor the potential energy of the elastic. In order for cells to be the basis for emerging intelligence they have to have properties that allow for that to happen. Edited by Panda, : No reason given. Edited by Panda, : No reason given.If I were you And I wish that I were you All the things I'd do To make myself turn blue
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GDR Member Posts: 6202 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 2.1 |
1.61803 writes: Determinism is how our universe operates. The wave function propagates in a determistic fashion. Randomness and stoichastic behaviors of matter still operate in accordance to deterministic confines. Its just the way it all comes together depends on initial conditions which on a Quantum level are never the same. Thanks for the explanation. My credentials in this area are from reading Brian Greene and similar books so be advised I'm in way over my head. It seems to me that QM argues against a deterministic world on this basis. Particles don't become the way we perceive them until we perceive them and also the history’s created that allows for our perception. Doesn't this negate a deterministic world?
1.61803 writes: In regards to free will and choices and such it seems we have the ability to choose, but can not change the initial conditions of what has come before. Information in the universe can not be lost. Every atom and subatomic particle if given enough time will manifest our universe. And so it has, our universe is here and matter and energy has become senitient through the evolution of the human mind. Saying intelligence is unnecessary and thus has not reason to evolve is like saying the universe is unnecessary and has no reason to evolve either. The first line from wiki re determinism says this:
quote: It just seems to me that if from the start in a deterministic world where all actions are pre-determined by the previous conditions then I see no reason for intelligence to evolve. I agree with you that we do have the ability to choose and that the world isn't deterministic so intelligence does provide an advantage and makes evolutionary sense.Everybody is entitled to my opinion.
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Straggler Member Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
Just a quick note on Quantum Mechanics and determinism - QM results in probabalistic outcomes rather than definite ones. In that sense it is "indeterminate". But that hardly supports the sort of dualistic freewill undetermined by chemistry and physics that seems to being proposed as an indicator of "intelligence" by some here. Cause and effect still apply. Quantum determinism just has an inherently probabalistic component.
Secondly - Re the evolution of intelliigence - Given the unpredictable nature of reality (which is not the same as it being indeterminate - just too complex to actually accurately predict) - Entities that can adapt, plan, sense etc. obviously have a survival advantage over ones that cannot. Thirdly - On human (and human-like) intelligence - I was looking at a interview with Dan Dennett recently where he posited the phrase "It seemed like a good idea at the time" as encompassing all of the main hallmarks of conscious intelligence. Self awareness. Awareness of alternative conceptual possibilities. Decision making capabilities. Memory. Foresight. The ability to modify future behaviour based on past experience (i.e. learn). Etc. If (he posits) we can ever build an Artificially Intelligent machine that can express the phrase "It seemed like a good idea at the time" and that actually means it then we will have created human-like conscious intelligence. Not entirely relevant here. But I found it kinda interesting.
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Straggler Member Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
GDR writes: It seems to me that QM argues against a deterministic world on this basis. If you think that QM rescues common conceptions of freewill in some sense think again. Instead QM results in random rather than entirely predictable behaviour. But it no more facilitates the sort of dualistic conscious-mind-agency of the sort I suspect you are advocating than more fixed versions of determinacy. It just makes your behaviour randomly deterministic rather than entirely fixed.
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GDR Member Posts: 6202 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 2.1 |
Straggler writes: If you think that QM rescues common conceptions of freewill in some sense think again. Instead QM results in random rather than entirely predictable behaviour. If the results are random then I think that's a pretty strong indicator that consciousnes of whatever kind, dictates the outcome.
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Panda Member (Idle past 3725 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined: |
GDR writes:
To quote Wiki: (Emphasis mine) If the results are random then I think that's a pretty strong indicator that consciousnes of whatever kind, dictates the outcome.quote:If quantum indeterminacy affected larger events then wouldn't everything be random? Objects would appear and disappear; pens would fall up or down; nothing could be anticipated. Edited by Panda, : No reason given.If I were you And I wish that I were you All the things I'd do To make myself turn blue
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GDR Member Posts: 6202 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 2.1 |
Panda writes: If quantum indeterminacy affected larger events then wouldn't everything be random?Objects would appear and disappear; pens would fall up or down; nothing could be anticipated. I'm probably seriously out of my depth here but I'll respondanyway. I would think that quantum indeterminacy functions within the framework of natural laws. When I checked wiki it seems that there are several different ideas on what people mean by determinism. Aside from that though is anyone suggesting that I don't have a choice about what I'm posting right now as it was all determined? Everybody is entitled to my opinion.
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zi ko Member (Idle past 3632 days) Posts: 578 Joined: |
But No you are literally stating the laws of nature have innate intelligence.
I s it so inessential to say that everything has a kind of intelligence, as i have defined it in advance, if this is my belief? I have yet to see any evidence from you to support this claim. In fact your OP condenses to nothing more than saying everything has intelligence.About evidence: I do not intent to give all the answers and the evidences (!!!!) of it for all the key questions of life appearance. I am satisfied that CDR agrees with existance of innate intelligence and you and Stragler say that there is a rudimentary intelligence even in no brained animals.
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