Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rayssd.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!rayssd!asa
From: asa@rayssd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: Inscrutable Intelligence
Message-ID: <233@rayssd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Nov-83 16:38:29 EST
Article-I.D.: rayssd.233
Posted: Tue Nov  8 16:38:29 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Nov-83 13:40:29 EST
References: <13363@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI
Lines: 13

The problem with a psychological definition of intelligence is in finding
some way to make it different from what animals do, and cover all of the
complex things that huumans can do. It used to be measured by written
test. This was grossly unfair, so visual tests were added. These tend to
be grossly unfair because of cultural bias. Dolphins can do very
"intelligent" things, based on types of "intelligent behavior". The best
definition might be based on the rate at which learning occurs, as some
have suggested, but that is also an oversimplification. The ability to
deduce cause and effect, and to predict effects is obviously also
important. My own feeling is that it has something to do with the ability
to build a model of yourself and modify yourself accordingly. It may
be that "I conceive" (not "I think"), or "I conceive and act", or "I
conceive of conceiving" may be as close as we can get.