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“INTELLIGENCE measures an agent’s ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments.” (S. Legg and M. Hutter). https://lnkd.in/dntAe62 View in LinkedIn

INTELLIGENCE is "the capacity to acquire capacity.” (H. Woodrow). https://lnkd.in/dntAe62 View in LinkedIn

"INTELLIGENCE is what is measured by intelligence tests.” (E. Boring, 1923). https://lnkd.in/dntAe62 View in LinkedIn

NO AGREEMENT. "Despite a long history of research and debate, there is still no standard definition of intelligence. This has lead some to believe that intelligence may be approximately described, but cannot be fully defined. Although there is no single standard definition, if one surveys the many definitions that have been proposed, strong similarities between many of the definitions quickly become obvious." https://lnkd.in/dntAe62 View in LinkedIn

EVEN TODAY, we struggle to be able to describe what we mean by human intelligence (let alone that belonging to other creatures on this planet). On a second level, our understanding of the molecular basis of intelligence, thought, memory is largely limited to colorful brain scans during mentation. View in LinkedIn

CONSCIOUS AI. “Kurzweil, after all, is one of the world's leading advocates of "hard AI," or the development of consciousness in an artificial being. Kurzweil believes this will come about in 2029, to be specific.” https://lnkd.in/d9dvqqC View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends examining a biologically-versed philosopher’s views on evolution. Not only highlighting the importance of horizontal gene transfer enabled by mobile genetic elements, he describes the rationale for genetic information being contextual by analogy with other natural linguistic codes. View in LinkedIn

INNATE WORLD. “Natural code-inherent rules are absent in abiotic matter that is determined strictly by natural laws: no syntax, pragmatic or semantic rules are present if water freezes to ice.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn