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

by David Turell , Wednesday, September 01, 2010, 16:49 (4979 days ago) @ xeno6696


> Okay, so we're in agreement: we're only talking about an epistemological boundary; All knowledge is based on modification or application of previous knowledge. 
> 
> You're extending an assertion that robot's won't be capable of creating a new concept. For example, robots would only ever be able to work in "normal" science, never in paradigmatic science? 
> 
> I don't see the connection here to Free Will. To me, what you guys are talking about is that robots can only make choices based on what choices they're allowed to make--which is no different than what we do. A human being cannot make a choice beyond that which he cannot conceive. Someone with an IQ of 85 is unlikely to create the "Theory of Everything." Humans have absolute freedom to make any choices within their box; so are robots. In this particular definition of Free Will--robots exercise this exactly, yet we would all agree that they don't actually have "free will" because we understand "free will" to be a property of sentience.-The connection to free will is the 'box' concept. Free Will is limited by our knowledge, as you appear to agree to above. Bella uses the word playpen. I think we can conclude that robots will always be boxed, and can only act within their box, but among humans, there are Einsteins who open up whole new areas of boxes and we all join in, if we choose. This is free will in intellectual study. I've been reading a new book on scholastic philosophy, using Thomism to show that God exists. I know its a throwback, but I'm not sure modern philosophy is correct. After all, Adler, in his book was proving things all over again, and then died a Catholic. Both he can St. Thomas used maintaining the system as a key point. My point is (I'm really not off topic) that by free will I'm opening up my knowledge.