Month: September 2022

THE CORE. “It is widely held that there is such a thing as “general intelligence”, often labeled g, that lies at the core of cognitive ability and that correlates with many different cognitive capacities.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

CONTRARIANS. “Opponents hold that there is no such thing as intelligence, or at least that there is no single thing. On this view, there are many different ways of evaluating cognitive agents, no one of which deserves the canonical status of “intelligence”.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

COMPROMISE. “So it would be good to be able to formulate the key theses and arguments without assuming the notion of intelligence. I think that this can be done. We can rely instead on the general notion of a cognitive capacity: some specific capacity that can be compared between systems.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, G. “(i) G is a self-amplifying parameter (relative to us); (ii) G loosely tracks cognitive capacity H (downstream from us); (iii) Absent defeaters, there will be G++ and H++.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

CYBERNETIC PATH. “In the long run, if we are to match the speed and capacity of nonbiological systems, we will probably have to dispense with our biological core entirely. This might happen through a gradual process through which parts of our brain are replaced over time, or it happen through a process of scanning our brains and loading the result into a computer, and then enhancing the resulting processes. Either way, the result is likely to be an enhanced nonbiological system, most likely a computational system.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

“ANALOGIES between cellular information processing and that of computers are briefly explored. Primarily through one particularly thoughtful article by David J D'Onofrio and Gary An from the University of Phoenix and General Dynamics.” https://lnkd.in/dZN-i-F View in LinkedIn

DEFINITION. “Orthogonality means that system components can be varied independently without affecting the performance of the other components. It is the prerequisite for dividing a system into small parts and developing them independently.” https://lnkd.in/dh7ubQM View in LinkedIn

KEEPING ORDER. “Biological systems also rely upon the property of orthogonality of information in order to minimize the chance of improper interpretation of the genetic language. Control regions, such as the promoters, insulator and enhancer sequences, and the codons contained in each gene, must be represented in a non-trivial and unambiguous manner.” https://lnkd.in/dZN-i-F View in LinkedIn

CORRECT FILING. “Orthogonal Uniqueness of Information. This refers to the property of information storage and representation that allows for unambiguous interpretation of the information when it is processed.” https://lnkd.in/dZN-i-F View in LinkedIn

CLEAR MESSAGES. “Biological systems also rely upon the property of orthogonality of information in order to minimize the chance of improper interpretation of the genetic language. Control regions, such as the promoters, insulator and enhancer sequences, and the codons contained in each gene, must be represented in a non-trivial and unambiguous manner.” https://lnkd.in/dZN-i-F View in LinkedIn