DavidPlumpton comments on For fiction: How could alien minds differ from human minds? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DavidPlumpton 23 August 2011 12:44:56AM *  2 points [-]

How about:

  • Enhancing the brain with hardware for that memory/intelligence boost.
  • Superior intuition for probability
  • Different/worse optical illusions/blind spots from different optical nerve wiring
  • Superior 3D spatial visualization for ocean dwellers
  • Creatures that get stuck in a correlation/causation confusion and manage to continue along mostly successfully
  • Types of synaesthesia far more elaborate than in Humans
  • A conflict between intelligence and instinct where instinct is in total control but intelligence knows it's doing the wrong thing
  • Minds partitioned more finely than the human left/right hemisphere split, with more independence between them
  • Species that specialize their intelligence like insects becoming workers/warriors/queens/drones etc. but for intelligence

Lots of fun possibilities in this area.

Comment author: dbaupp 23 August 2011 08:21:58AM 3 points [-]

Species that specialize their intelligence like insects becoming workers/warriors/queens/drones etc. but for intelligence.

Humans do this (and increasingly so). e.g. we have physicists, mathematicians, economists, psychologists etc.

Comment author: open_sketchbook 24 August 2011 04:45:40AM 1 point [-]

Perhaps one might imagine a creature that essentially cultivates multiple personalities disorder for each task they perform, where the task at hand is (more or less) their utility function, unless something like survival instict kicked in an override?

Comment author: lessdazed 24 August 2011 06:13:35AM 2 points [-]

Imagine a creature that didn't do that!

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