Comment on Open Thread: March 2010

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:15:06 GMT

Well I would consider the Pencil-MrHen system as intelligent. I think further investigation would be required to determine that the pencil is not intelligent when it is not connected to MrHen, but that MrHen is intelligent when not connected to the pencil. It then makes sense to say that the intelligence originates from MrHen.

The problem with the self-referential from my perspective is that it presumes a self.

It seems to me that ideas like "I" and "want" graph humanness on to other objects.

So, I want to see what happens if I try to divorce all of my anthrocentric assumptions about self, desires, wants, etc. I want to measure a thing and then by a set of criteria declare that thing to be intelligent.

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