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Chaos and cause
We don’t know what the full taxonomy of intelligence is right now. Some traits of human thinking will be common (as common as bilateral symmetry, segmentation, and tubular guts are in biology), but the possibility space of viable minds will likely contain traits far outside what we have evolved. It is not necessary that this type of thinking be fas
... See moreKevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
if we are truly to appreciate what non-human intelligence might consist of – and thus transform our understanding of our own abilities and those of others – we need to stop thinking about intelligence as something defined by human experience. Instead, we must from the outset think about intelligence as something more-than-human.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
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Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
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To define intelligence simply as what humans do is the narrowest way we could possibly think about it – and it is ultimately to narrow ourselves, and lessen its possible meaning. Rather, by expanding our definition of intelligence, and the chorus of minds which manifest it, we might allow our own intelligence to flower into new forms and new emerge
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
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The main thing I keep coming back to is that nothing flourishes in isolation. Neurons first evolved around the same time that animals started eating each other: that is to say, the fact that we have thought at all emerges from an evolutionary necessity to be aware of the presence of other animals. That doesn’t mean intelligence has its origins in h... See more
Dark Properties – A quest to dig up bright ideas across shared ...
Andrei Stoica added
**Note:** AI as religion - something beyond humans’ comprehension that we’re putting faith in“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” This statement makes intuitive sense, but, more importantly, we can point to a concrete example in support of it: the microscopic roundworm C. elegans. ... See more
newyorker.com • Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter
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Since the 1950s, discussions about AI have largely revolved around a big, tantalizing question: What can machines do, and where might they hit a wall? Will they ever truly think, understand, or maybe even become conscious? Could they reach the so-called “heights of human intelligence”? And then there’s that shadowy question looming in the backgroun
... See moreShai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
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One way to change the nature of these relationships, then, is to change the way we think about intelligence: what it is, how it acts on the world, and who possesses it. Beyond the narrow framing put forward by both technology companies and the doctrine of human uniqueness (the idea that, among all beings, human intelligence is singular and pre-emin
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