What Exactly IS Intelligence? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell , Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 23:49 (4980 days ago) @ xeno6696


> > > This does not mean that we know all of our choices or have grown to understand all of our choices. Just like the baby in the play pen, the baby will grow out of the play pen and grow to choose different choices it had no idea was available all the time. We as stardust grow and as we do our available choices grow with us. But never will we have a choice to choose more than we are capable of choosing or than we have available to us.
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> > An excellent analysis. My concept of free will fits this definition.
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> If this is your idea of free will, than robots already exercise it.-I think you misunderstand her reasoning. I should let her defend herself. She is not determanistic. As intellect grows our mental concepts grow also, and our achievements follow right along with this growth. We cannot work with materials that don't exist until we create them. Cavemen did not have stainless steel to cook with. Element 140 doeesn't exist yet, to stretch my reasoning. Cavemen do not understand the concepts we deal with. Specialization in thought means that you understand programming, and i don't, but I can use the resluts of your knowledge to expand my horizons as I browse the internet for information, conceptual or factual. We are a long way, if ever, that a robot will browse the internet, find fatual information and innitiate a new concept, not yet thought of by a human.