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Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Intelligence derives from being conscious
Within contemporary cognitive science there is a blurry and awkward line between intelligence and consciousness. However, it seems clear to me that much of our intelligence derives from the fact that we are conscious. This is despite the fact that it is well known that most of…
Choosing the right data from the environment
The key to human intelligence is that our brain chooses the right data out of the environment, and then runs the right algorithms on that data. I say algorithms for lack of a better word, because I do not believe that our brains run algorithms at all.
Consciousness-as-hallucination as the key to intelligence
The project of machine consciousness is to create a computational simulation with such high fidelity to the human brain and human thought (if these are even separate things) that this simulation would also construct subjective experience. In order for AI to be successful in…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Nature and nurture each control half of intelligence
For all of us, nature controls about 50 percent of our intellectual horsepower, and environment determines the rest. This means two things for parents: First, no matter how hard your child tries, there will be limits to what his brain can do. Second, that’s only half of the…
Einstein had a fairly average brain
What did they discover? The most surprising finding was that there was nothing surprising. Einstein had a fairly average brain. The organ had a standard internal architecture, with a few structural anomalies. The regions responsible for visuospatial cognition and math…
No two brains solve problems alike
When you examine living geniuses solving some tough problem, you do not find reassuring similarities; you find disconcerting individualities. Problem solving and sensory processing do not look the same in any two brains.
IQ is a dress size, not a birth date
Like Kirstie’s dress size, IQ is malleable. IQ has been shown to vary over one’s life span, and it is surprisingly vulnerable to environmental influences. It can change if one is stressed, old, or living in a different culture from the testing majority. A child’s IQ is…
Intelligence is a stew, not a number
Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, who published his latest theory of multiple intelligences in 1993, put it this way: Strong evidence exists “that the mind is a multifaceted, multicomponent instrument, which cannot in any legitimate way be captured in a single…
Crystallized and fluid intelligence
Like Mom’s stew, human intelligence has two essential components, both fundamentally linked to our evolutionary need to survive. The first is the ability to record information. This is sometimes called “crystallized intelligence.” It involves the various memory systems of the…
Five ingredients of the intelligence stew
Many ingredients make up the human intelligence stew, and I’d like to describe five that I think you would do well to consider as you contemplate your child’s intellectual gifts. They are: • The desire to explore • Self-control • Creativity • Verbal communication • Interpreting…
Executive function predicts success better than IQ
Welcome to the interesting world of impulse control. It is part of a suite of behaviors under the collective term “executive function.” Executive function controls planning, foresight, problem solving, and goal setting. It engages many parts of the brain, including a short-term…
IQ tests miss most of intelligence
From exploration, self-control, and creativity to verbal and nonverbal ability, it is clear that the intelligence stew has many ingredients. Standard IQ tests are not capable of measuring most of these elements, even though they play a powerful role in the future success of…
Fertilizers and toxins for a smart baby
Regardless of their genes, you can help your children mobilize their intelligence as fully as Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, or the most successful innovators working today. Just how do you grow a smart baby? We’re thinking in terms of soil, so it makes sense to formulate…
Talking to children raises their IQ
Speak to your children as often as you can. It is one of the most well-established findings in all of the developmental literature. The linkage between words and smarts was discovered through some pretty invasive research. In one study, investigators descended upon a family’s…
Parenting is not a race
Write this across your heart before your child comes into the world: Parenting is not a race. Kids are not proxies for adult success. Competition can be inspiring, but brands of it can wire your child’s brain in a toxic way. Comparing your kids with your friends’ kids will not…
Epigrams On Programming
Artificial intelligence
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
Problem: “philosophy of x” vs. “x”
In numerous places in the expert-supplied taxonomies, we also noticed that cat- egory names sometimes included a “philosophy of” prefix and sometimes did not; examples include “artificial intelligence” vs. “philosophy of artificial intelligence,” “connectionism” vs. “philosophy…
Hermeneutics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Psychologists turn to hermeneutics
Similarly to computer scientists, psychologists have recently become interested in hermeneutics, especially as alternatives to cognitivism. Hubert Dreyfus' critique of conventional artificial intelligence has been influential not only in AI but in psychology, and psychologists…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
Evolution has already solved intelligence
In one sense, the problem of creating intelligent agents has already been solved. Over the course of the earth’s 4.5 billion years of history, evolution has solved the problem over and over again. Mammals arrived 370 million years ago. Our last common ancestor with the apes…
Dreyfus against disembodied intelligence
This argument formed the backbone of one of the foremost critiques of AI. The philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, in the 1970s, declared that AI was misguided in its assumption that disembodied intelligence was possible. On the perceived failure of classical AI, Dreyfus noted …
Intelligence requires a body
The degree to which embodiment is significant remains a controversial issue. Rodney Brooks goes as far as to say, “Intelligence requires a body.” For example, the design of a robot body will determine the sensory phenomena it experiences.
L'imperfetta meraviglia (Andrea De Carlo)
La scarsa cultura del mondo del rock
Poi bisogna dire tutta la verità: non è che il mondo della musica rock sia popolato da persone di straordinaria intelligenza, e ancora meno di straordinaria cultura. La caratteristica più comune è una mancanza di precisione del pensiero dovuta allo stile di vita, al confronto…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
L'intelligenza scambiata per un fine
E molte persone hanno una specie di bug: credono che l’intelligenza sia un fine. Hanno un’unica idea in testa: essere intelligenti, e questa è una cosa stupidissima. E quando l’intelligenza crede di essere uno scopo, funziona in modo strano: non dimostra la sua esistenza con…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
The Turing test as a kind of behaviorism
We need a test that will tell us when a machine is genuinely behaving intelligently, and when it is not. This test was also invented by Alan Turing, and is called the Turing test. There are different versions of it, but the basic idea is this: we can side-step all the great…
Recursive decomposition and human intelligence
Again, the idea of recursive decomposition seemed to give us an important clue to understanding human intelligence. Complex intelligent human tasks are recursively decomposable into simple tasks, and that is how we are so intelligent.
Semantic Computing - Microsoft Research
Semantic computing
Semantic computing is about exploring complex data from disparate sources and making sense of that data. It is about interacting with data in rich, safe, and semantically meaningful ways to expose the path from data to information, knowledge, and intelligence. Semantics have…
Shivon Zilis - Machine Intelligence
Machine intelligence
I mean “machine intelligence” as a unifying term for what others call machine learning and artificial intelligence. (Some others have used the term before, without quite describing it or understanding how laden this field has been with debates over descriptions.) I would have…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Temporal reasoning that ignores space
On one side, computer science concentrates on temporal reasoning in controlled industrial environments, typically using discrete events and time intervals, neglecting spatiotemporal dependencies (e.g. Theodoulidis and Loucopoulos 1991, Ligozat and Vila 1998, Cowley and…
Today's Web 3.0 Nonsense Blogstorm - O'reilly Radar
Web2 vs the semantic web
Alas, I find the Web 3.0 arguments as clear evidence that the proponents don’t understand Web 2.0 at all. Web 2.0 is not about front end technologies. It’s precisely about back-end, and it’s about meaning and intelligence in the back end. The real difference between Web 2.0 and…
What Is Collective Intelligence? - Assembl
Collective intelligence
Intelligence is not just something that happens inside individual minds. It also arises within groups of individuals and this phenomenon can be quite powerful. [...] The widely accepted definition states that collective intelligence is the ability of a group of people to be…