The part about imagining being a horse was so good to me. Maybe it's a normal thing to ponder on but I always feel like I'm alone in that I OFTEN consider what it's like to be a bird, fly, turtle etc... but I always end up with the belief that if I could ACTUALLY experience being a fly, then at that point I wouldn't be able to come back to being a person
I recall reading that ants, for example, are not aware that humans exist. We live side by side for thousands of years. Why not human species some higher forms of life doing the same?
I’ve been thinking the same for a long long time. Our 5 senses are so limited in scope we only experience a fraction of what exists at a time. And what if there are more senses - senses we don’t even know exist that open the door to other observations of what is real.
Although I really support the research of the question of "what is intelligence", my personal hunch is that, much like living cells, intelligence might be just part of something MUCH BIGGER ... Evidence shows intelligence at thee cellular level foe many organisms. And regarding cells themselves; heck, we STILL don't even have a complete manifest of even what ALL the things a single living cell even DOES....
Because social proof takes critical mass and that takes time. And you don't get millions of views or subscribers without social proof, only those relatively strongly interested in the topics. The quality is certainly there and it'll get there eventually and when it does it'll happen fast.
This is absolutely true. We _don't_ know what we don't know, and so it's impossible to understand what it might be like to be more intelligent. Moreover, the least intelligent person on Earth will still feel exactly the same within themselves as the most intelligent person. We don't know what we don't know, and we don't know what it would really mean even if we _did_ know... but it almost certainly wouldn't be any different to now.
I was thinking about learning AI and programming for it bu† I thought I'd search for a video just on normal intelligence and found this. I think this is a pre-requisite before looking into the artificial stuff.
I don’t like the idea we couldn’t conceive of a more intelligent species or communicate with them and vice versa. We could interact with a squirrel in a variety of ways, Feed it, yell at it, chop its tree down, like us they occupy physical space. Same with an alien species, they take up space they make noise they use resources. They could interact with us without understanding us. So boo, thin argument. Rest is awesome 😅
I've found this always a rather lazy argument by people who haven't actually thought through it with anything but their contemporary ethos. Certainly a dramatically more intelligent being would find it difficult to stay engaged with a human, but we still have people that investigate the sociology of insects and the like all the time. When you have a society in the billions (more likely Trillions), just one in a million researcher's along then would outnumber every person on our planet even fleetingly interested in SETI. This results in a Huge surface for quick and efficient development of meaningful communication by mutually curious beings capable of abstract communication.
The part about imagining being a horse was so good to me. Maybe it's a normal thing to ponder on but I always feel like I'm alone in that I OFTEN consider what it's like to be a bird, fly, turtle etc... but I always end up with the belief that if I could ACTUALLY experience being a fly, then at that point I wouldn't be able to come back to being a person
I love these lectures and David BUT i find the background music distracting. REALLY DISTRACTING. thanks.
Thank you David
I recall reading that ants, for example, are not aware that humans exist.
We live side by side for thousands of years.
Why not human species some higher forms of life doing the same?
I’ve been thinking the same for a long long time. Our 5 senses are so limited in scope we only experience a fraction of what exists at a time. And what if there are more senses - senses we don’t even know exist that open the door to other observations of what is real.
If our brains were so simple that we could understand them, we would be so simple that we couldn't! 😊
Although I really support the research of the question of "what is intelligence", my personal hunch is that, much like living cells, intelligence might be just part of something MUCH BIGGER ...
Evidence shows intelligence at thee cellular level foe many organisms.
And regarding cells themselves; heck, we STILL don't even have a complete manifest of even what ALL the things a single living cell even DOES....
Awesome content again, mind-blowing how this channel is not getting millions of views.
Because social proof takes critical mass and that takes time. And you don't get millions of views or subscribers without social proof, only those relatively strongly interested in the topics. The quality is certainly there and it'll get there eventually and when it does it'll happen fast.
As I look around at human activity, globally, as a human, I am envious of that squirrel-brain. 😉
... we don't know, what we don't know
This is absolutely true. We _don't_ know what we don't know, and so it's impossible to understand what it might be like to be more intelligent. Moreover, the least intelligent person on Earth will still feel exactly the same within themselves as the most intelligent person. We don't know what we don't know, and we don't know what it would really mean even if we _did_ know... but it almost certainly wouldn't be any different to now.
como puedo aumentar o potenciar mi inteligencia?
Citizen to police dog handler: “The dog must be intelligent.”
Police dig handler: “Well, it’s smarter than fish.”
I was thinking about learning AI and programming for it bu† I thought I'd search for a video just on normal intelligence and found this. I think this is a pre-requisite before looking into the artificial stuff.
I don’t like the idea we couldn’t conceive of a more intelligent species or communicate with them and vice versa. We could interact with a squirrel in a variety of ways, Feed it, yell at it, chop its tree down, like us they occupy physical space. Same with an alien species, they take up space they make noise they use resources. They could interact with us without understanding us. So boo, thin argument. Rest is awesome 😅
I've found this always a rather lazy argument by people who haven't actually thought through it with anything but their contemporary ethos. Certainly a dramatically more intelligent being would find it difficult to stay engaged with a human, but we still have people that investigate the sociology of insects and the like all the time. When you have a society in the billions (more likely Trillions), just one in a million researcher's along then would outnumber every person on our planet even fleetingly interested in SETI.
This results in a Huge surface for quick and efficient development of meaningful communication by mutually curious beings capable of abstract communication.