Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (1938)	10/20/2000 12:53:40 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 28931

That's kind of the whole point. That's why "smarter" was quoted. I was using "smarts" as being plugged into your environment and memory. Using this definition, sharks are very successful. Ants have a distributed intelligence. They are capable of very complex actions through coordinated simple actions even though their brain is only 100k neurons. But if you have 100k ants with 100k neurons each, you start to get a nexus of intelligence that spans the space owned by each member. I don't subscribe to the human definition of smart as being the only definition. Too much of a pragmatist for that! Certainly genome is a type of long term memory. But it is not the only one. Memory is in many forms, some direct like DNA others indirect like the weather-modifying behavior of redwoods. I think we miss the boat if we simply use a single definition. Heck, I've even argued that rocks have a type of memory including their crystallization history and chemical make-up.