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>From: stas@netcom.com (Stanislav Malyshev)
Subject: Re: My definition of intelligence
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In article <exukjb.201.717034356@exu.ericsson.se> exukjb@exu.ericsson.se (ken bell) writes:
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>This would seem to mean that there is an irremediable and irreducible 
>element of valuation in the very idea of intelligence?  
> 
>What makes one being "more intelligent" than another? 
>
>	1. The power to attain one's goals or ends, i.e.,
>	   who makes the fewest mistakes in the selection
>	   of means to attain one's ends, i.e., selects the
>	   "best" means to attain those ends.	 
>
>	2. Solves [overcomes] problems most efficiently, most speedily,
>	   with least cost.
>
>Which one do you like the best here, and what is the most salient 
>difference you see between these two?	   
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Hrm..  how about this...

'More intelligent' means having the capacity to arrive at 'more true'
conclusions that follow from analysis, available information considered.

This would mean that an original thinker with little knowledge
is probably more intelligent than a drone with a storehouse of information.
If the former person (system) arrives at the right conclusions (given the
initial knowledge) by means of sound analysis, and the second system
doesnt analyze as well, the former is more intelligent.

I am trying to say that the quality of analysis should be more important
than the arrival at globally correct solutions.  **Intelligence should
not be a function of the correctness of available information, but of
what is done to/with the information.**

Thus, if the laws of physics were to suddenly change due to some totally
incredible unforseen event in the universe, the sound judgement by which
the laws were arrived at would still remain sound.


Stan
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