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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 06 2015,03:34   

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Now you've done it. You've summoned The Diagram.

Should somebody call an X-orcist?

Oh wait, X is that other guy.

Never mind.

Make it three exorcists, this is important

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 06 2015,04:48   

Gaulin

You are falling behind in the Crank Stakes. You need to include more X,Y and Z in your crap.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 06 2015,08:15   

And more cowbell.

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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 06 2015,08:34   

Quote (GaryGaulin @ Oct. 06 2015,04:21)
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Well there you go then. He was born with ears and they functioned well enough for long enough for him to know what the notes and instruments sounded like.

That's irrelevant.  Nowhere in the auditory system is there anything to control.  No muscle systems.
Your insistence that any intelligence must have 'something to control', must have a 'motor control system', is simply false.
There is no motor control system involved in imagining a new melody or in modifying a melody already heard.
There is no motor control system involved in hearing a melody.  Still less is there one involved in recognizing that it is a melody already heard, or similar to a known melody, or that it is a new melody one hasn't heard before.
The same apply for crafting any idea, including hypotheses and theories.  Motor control only applies to the output of such intelligently caused 'features of the universe'.
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Ears are needed to detect air pressure wave changes, the sense of "hearing". If there are no ears at all then it might sense vibration with their sense of "touch" but they do not have the sense of "hearing".

Likewise irrelevant to the points at hand.
No motor control is involved in hearing nor in sensation through touch.
   
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Quote (N.Wells @ Oct. 05 2015,16:24)
Note that Mozart did not "clap out a beat" and also had the music fully formed in his imagination: he reportedly wrote down the score in one go, without corrections or false starts, "as if taking dictation."


I have good reason to believe that it was common to loudly participate in keeping time to music, by at least clapping along with everyone else while keeping their neighbors up all night:

And again, profoundly beside the point.

You are insisting that you have a 'definition' of intelligence as such, and that intelligence, as such, always exists with the all the elements of the full 4-stage "circuit diagram".

You are wrong, because not all acts of intelligence as such involve a 'system of control'.  Or as you used to call it, a 'motor control system'.  A  motor control system is not a necessary condition for the existence of an intelligent act.

We take note, just for the sake of keeping you honest that you were quite sure you were changing nothing but the wording when you switched from 'motor control system' to 'something to control'.  So it is legitimate to treat the two as synonymous -- you don't get to weasel past this by claiming that what is controlled are thoughts involved in crafting the melody or idea or hypothesis or theory.  Or that hearing is somehow a 'something to control'.

You insist that motor control is a necessary element of anything that is to be considered intelligent.
You are wrong.
We have shown it with evidence.
You have provided no counter-evidence.  

Epic fail, as always.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 06 2015,16:20   

Quote (The whole truth @ Oct. 06 2015,08:15)
And more cowbell.

How to Play the Cowbell

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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 06 2015,16:30   

Another real-world example that disproves Gary's nonsense about the critical role of 'muscle control systems' in the 'circuit diagram' of intelligence -- Kekule's conception of the structure of the benzene ring.  A landmark moment in the history of organic chemistry, conceived without any trace of 'something to control' or a 'motor control system'.
So much for the diagram.
So much for the "theory".

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,07:22   

Quote (NoName @ Oct. 06 2015,16:30)
Another real-world example that disproves Gary's nonsense about the critical role of 'muscle control systems' in the 'circuit diagram' of intelligence -- Kekule's conception of the structure of the benzene ring.  A landmark moment in the history of organic chemistry, conceived without any trace of 'something to control' or a 'motor control system'.
So much for the diagram.
So much for the "theory".

This is a strawman argument that is not worth responding to.

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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,07:34   

Because you can't.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,07:48   

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Quote (NoName @ Oct. 06 2015,16:30)
Another real-world example that disproves Gary's nonsense about the critical role of 'muscle control systems' in the 'circuit diagram' of intelligence -- Kekule's conception of the structure of the benzene ring.  A landmark moment in the history of organic chemistry, conceived without any trace of 'something to control' or a 'motor control system'.
So much for the diagram.
So much for the "theory".

This is a strawman argument that is not worth responding to.

So, you are as clueless about what counts as a strawman argument as you are about intelligence.

In what way is this a strawman?  You insist that intelligence as such is defined by the presence of a 'something to control', a 'motor control system'.  True or false?
Yet the insight into the structure of benzene gained by Kekule did not involve an motor control system at all.  True or false?
Such insights are generally considered to be 'features of the universe best explained by intelligent cause[s]', which you claim to be defining.  True or false?
Thus, you fail.
Far from a strawman, it is a complete and concise refutation of your current "theory" of 'intelligence' as it currently stands.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,12:51   

https://www.flickr.com/photos....0071066

A Mercedes Benzene (with a motor control system) towing a Mobile Ohm

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,14:28   

Lunatics.

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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,14:49   

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Lunatics.

By your inverted and insane standards, perhaps.  Most patients in the asylum are convinced the doctors are crazy and out to get them.

Nonetheless, the examples provided have not been countered by you, and they falsify your construction of a 'circuit diagram' for intelligence.
There are things considered normal acts of intelligence that do not work according to your diagram.
Deal with it.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,14:49   

Benzine:




Intelligence:



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,14:54   

Or singular of benzine = benzene.

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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,15:05   

Good lord, there really aren't any lengths to which you will not go in order to avoid, deflect, and distract from your many failures.

We all know the structure of benzene.
We all know that structure of benzene has nothing to do with your diagram, and vice versa.

Sadly, for you and your diagram and your "theory", the insight into the structure of benzene gained by Kekule also has nothing to do with your diagram.
That means your diagram is wrong for specific acts of intelligence.
Deal with it.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,15:28   

Quote (NoName @ Oct. 07 2015,15:05)
Sadly, for you and your diagram and your "theory", the insight into the structure of benzene gained by Kekule also has nothing to do with your diagram.
That means your diagram is wrong for specific acts of intelligence.
Deal with it.

According to the latest delusion: If two unrelated diagrams have nothing in common then one of them has to be wrong (for specific acts of intelligence).

The only thing I can think of that both of you are either acting stupid on purpose, or need a caretaker who is trained to handle tough dementia cases, who can prevent you from further harming yourself and others.

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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,15:36   

Quote (GaryGaulin @ Oct. 07 2015,16:28)
 
Quote (NoName @ Oct. 07 2015,15:05)
Sadly, for you and your diagram and your "theory", the insight into the structure of benzene gained by Kekule also has nothing to do with your diagram.
That means your diagram is wrong for specific acts of intelligence.
Deal with it.

According to the latest delusion: If two unrelated diagrams have nothing in common then one of them has to be wrong (for specific acts of intelligence).

The only thing I can think of that both of you are either acting stupid on purpose, or need a caretaker who is trained to handle tough dementia cases, who can prevent you from further harming yourself and others.

You really are this stupid?

We're not talking about the structure of benzene, which has nothing to do with your "theory" nor your diagram.
We are talking about how the structure of benzene was discovered -- through an intelligent act that did not involve any 'muscle control system'.
Your diagram and your "theory" insist that intelligence, as such, always requires such an element.
The insight into the actual structure of benzene was done in a reverie, a dream-like state, with no muscle actions whatsoever.
Therefore, your diagram and your "theory" are shown to be incorrect.
Or else, insight into the possible, and as it turned out, actual, structure of benzene is not an act of intelligence.

Those are your choices.
Deal with it.

Maybe someone else can explain it to you if you still don't understand.  I'd suggest a cognitive therapist.

ETA:  Does it help if I point out we are talking about acts of human intelligence here, not whatever absurdity you conceive as 'molecular intelligence'?

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,15:53   

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We are talking about how the structure of benzene was discovered -- through an intelligent act that did not involve any 'muscle control system'.

Considering how you ignored the fact that the discoverer was an intelligent human that relies on muscle control (including circulatory, respiration, digestive system) for survival: you are in worse shape than I first thought.

According to your logic a person who is no longer breathing, has no pulse, and as they say "shit the bed" is actually in fine health.

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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,16:13   

Quote (GaryGaulin @ Oct. 07 2015,15:53)
Quote (NoName @ Oct. 07 2015,15:36)
We are talking about how the structure of benzene was discovered -- through an intelligent act that did not involve any 'muscle control system'.

Considering how you ignored the fact that the discoverer was an intelligent human that relies on muscle control (including circulatory, respiration, digestive system) for survival: you are in worse shape than I first thought.

According to your logic a person who is no longer breathing, has no pulse, and as they say "shit the bed" is actually in fine health.

Then why isn't there a nuclear fusion reaction in your diagram?  No acts of intelligence can happen without the Sun, right?  You'll also need to add several other necessities of life to save this ridiculous argument.

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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,16:13   

Quote (GaryGaulin @ Oct. 07 2015,16:53)
Quote (NoName @ Oct. 07 2015,15:36)
We are talking about how the structure of benzene was discovered -- through an intelligent act that did not involve any 'muscle control system'.

Considering how you ignored the fact that the discoverer was an intelligent human that relies on muscle control (including circulatory, respiration, digestive system) for survival: you are in worse shape than I first thought.

According to your logic a person who is no longer breathing, has no pulse, and as they say "shit the bed" is actually in fine health.

Again with this bullshit.

That the particular individual who had the intuition had muscle control systems in abundance is irrelevant.
No muscle control systems were involved in the insight into the structure of benzene.

If your "theory"  needs to account for all existing elements that happen to be present, well, you're missing quite a few.  Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, a host of organic and inorganic compounds, gravity, parents, and countless others.
There's nothing special about 'muscle control systems' compared to all the other extraneous factors we might identify that warrants including them in the 'circuit diagram' for intelligence.

You are simply wrong to specify that any and every act of intelligence as such requires a 'motor control system' as an inherent part of the "circuit".
You also continue to evade and avoid the problem of music -- no muscle control systems are involved in hearing.
Ears are not muscles, there is nothing there to control.
Control over attention to some features of sound over others is not muscle control.
Your "theory" has been refuted by the adversity of facts.

Deal with it.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,16:29   

Gary, here's another reason why your attempt  to weasel out of the problems raised by including  'muscle control systems' in your "circuit diagram" will only cause you greater problems.

If the 'muscle control system' is inherent to the "circuit" that constitutes intelligence, it is reasonable to suppose that the specific details of the muscle control system so involved will have material impact on the various acts of intelligence.  If the 'muscle control system' does nothing other than provide a substrate to support the elements that make up the actual thing/process/event of intelligence, then it doesn't need to be specified.
If it does make it difference, we're back to your problem accounting for the intelligence of Stephen Hawking.
Almost no muscle control whatsoever, yet more intelligent than any athlete or body-builder.

So which is it --  is the 'muscle control system' merely an invariant substrate that contributes nothing to intelligence as such or is it a crucial component of each act of intelligence?
If the former, it doesn't belong in the diagram.
If the latter, then you have a host of new problems to deal with.  Amongst them, what is the nature of the relationship between muscle control systems and the various acts of intelligence.

Deal with it.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,16:32   

Quote (NoName @ Oct. 07 2015,16:13)
Quote (GaryGaulin @ Oct. 07 2015,16:53)
Quote (NoName @ Oct. 07 2015,15:36)
We are talking about how the structure of benzene was discovered -- through an intelligent act that did not involve any 'muscle control system'.

Considering how you ignored the fact that the discoverer was an intelligent human that relies on muscle control (including circulatory, respiration, digestive system) for survival: you are in worse shape than I first thought.

According to your logic a person who is no longer breathing, has no pulse, and as they say "shit the bed" is actually in fine health.

Again with this bullshit.

That the particular individual who had the intuition had muscle control systems in abundance is irrelevant.
No muscle control systems were involved in the insight into the structure of benzene.

If your "theory"  needs to account for all existing elements that happen to be present, well, you're missing quite a few.  Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, a host of organic and inorganic compounds, gravity, parents, and countless others.
There's nothing special about 'muscle control systems' compared to all the other extraneous factors we might identify that warrants including them in the 'circuit diagram' for intelligence.

You are simply wrong to specify that any and every act of intelligence as such requires a 'motor control system' as an inherent part of the "circuit".
You also continue to evade and avoid the problem of music -- no muscle control systems are involved in hearing.
Ears are not muscles, there is nothing there to control.
Control over attention to some features of sound over others is not muscle control.
Your "theory" has been refuted by the adversity of facts.

Deal with it.

You are then saying that they would have had no problem at all making a discovery where completely paralyzed and cannot communicate with anyone, along with full loss of the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex regions of their brain in which virtual motor systems are controlled (and network can also be used to map/draw equations) in which case they would be completely "unconscious" and probably unaware of anything.

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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,16:41   

Quote (GaryGaulin @ Oct. 07 2015,17:32)
Quote (NoName @ Oct. 07 2015,16:13)
Quote (GaryGaulin @ Oct. 07 2015,16:53)
 
Quote (NoName @ Oct. 07 2015,15:36)
We are talking about how the structure of benzene was discovered -- through an intelligent act that did not involve any 'muscle control system'.

Considering how you ignored the fact that the discoverer was an intelligent human that relies on muscle control (including circulatory, respiration, digestive system) for survival: you are in worse shape than I first thought.

According to your logic a person who is no longer breathing, has no pulse, and as they say "shit the bed" is actually in fine health.

Again with this bullshit.

That the particular individual who had the intuition had muscle control systems in abundance is irrelevant.
No muscle control systems were involved in the insight into the structure of benzene.

If your "theory"  needs to account for all existing elements that happen to be present, well, you're missing quite a few.  Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, a host of organic and inorganic compounds, gravity, parents, and countless others.
There's nothing special about 'muscle control systems' compared to all the other extraneous factors we might identify that warrants including them in the 'circuit diagram' for intelligence.

You are simply wrong to specify that any and every act of intelligence as such requires a 'motor control system' as an inherent part of the "circuit".
You also continue to evade and avoid the problem of music -- no muscle control systems are involved in hearing.
Ears are not muscles, there is nothing there to control.
Control over attention to some features of sound over others is not muscle control.
Your "theory" has been refuted by the adversity of facts.

Deal with it.

You are then saying that they would have had no problem at all making a discovery where completely paralyzed and cannot communicate with anyone, along with full loss of the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex regions of their brain in which virtual motor systems are controlled (and network can also be used to map/draw equations) in which case they would be completely "unconscious" and probably unaware of anything.

You don't know enough to ask that question.
Witness the face that neither the hippocampus nor the entorhinal cortex regions of the brain are muscle control systems.

Your diagram calls out 'muscle control systems' as inherent to the act of intelligence.
I've shown that you are wrong.
Or are you going to insist that had Kekule not described his results, they would never have been gained?
That's conflating different things even beyond your usual habits!
Communicating an act of intelligence is different from the act of intelligence being communicated.
Regardless of whether the latter is required for others to know about the act being communicated.

I'm saying that your diagram is wrong.
I've shown it with evidence.
You have no evidence, only the incredulity of the uneducated and willfully stupid to bring to the 'discussion'.

Come back and raise the point after you've convinced someone, anyone, that any act of intelligence as such requires the active and actual involvement of muscle control systems.
Until then, you're blowing smoke up your own kilt.

You are wrong, you've been shown to be wrong by brute facts.
Deal with it.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,16:48   

The phrase "unaware of anything" might be a local slang that to others is ambiguous. It translates to "unaware of everything".

In either case a person would not be able to discover anything. After loss of the parts of their brain that provide virtual muscles to consciously move around or draw with (source of our imagination) they would be essentially be "brain dead" too.

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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,16:57   

Quote (GaryGaulin @ Oct. 07 2015,17:48)
The phrase "unaware of anything" might be a local slang that to others is ambiguous. It translates to "unaware of everything".

In either case a person would not be able to discover anything. After loss of the parts of their brain that provide virtual muscles to consciously move around or draw with (source of our imagination) they would be essentially be "brain dead" too.

Idiot.
You have to provide evidence of this alleged 'virtual control system.'. The evidence at hand suggests it is a delusion brought about by linguistic issues.

Regardless, there is, very clearly, no use of any 'virtual control system' in Kekule's insight into the structure of benzene.
Who do you think I'm going to believe on this -- him or you?

Fully paralyzed is not brain dead.
The hippocampus does not exist in other life-forms considered intelligent.
A 'virtual control system' would need to be accounted for.  Given that it would be a "mental construct" it would be the product of intelligence.
So your recourse to this fable would be circular.

Asserting 'muscle control systems' as necessary substrates for intelligence has no explanatory power.  Even if true, it is a broad and vague generalization.  I thought you rejected those.

You've been refuted.
Deal with it.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,17:47   

I should also add that the recent revision to the operational definition for intelligence was the result of needing to show where it connects to recent evidence from neuroscience, now modeled by the ID Lab 5 that works great when put together as described.

My having no problem at all getting complex animal behavior by just adding a relatively simple addressable network to what I had for decades been experimenting with speaks for itself in regards to how scientifically useful the model and theory actually is.

Trashing something like this is scientifically irresponsible. But that's what happens in a forum like this one. Trolls.

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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,17:54   

Quote (GaryGaulin @ Oct. 07 2015,18:47)
I should also add that the recent revision to the operational definition for intelligence was the result of needing to show where it connects to recent evidence from neuroscience, now modeled by the ID Lab 5 that works great when put together as described.

My having no problem at all getting complex animal behavior by just adding a relatively simple addressable network to what I had for decades been experimenting with speaks for itself in regards to how scientifically useful the model and theory actually is.

Trashing something like this is scientifically irresponsible. But that's what happens in a forum like this one. Trolls.

This particular move has been dealt with repeatedly.
The fact, if it is actually a fact, that you can code systems that mimic the behavior of actual intelligences tells us exactly nothing about how the actual intelligence(s) in question work or are implemented.
Animals are not Von Neumann machines.  All modern computers are.  All programs rely on Von Neumann architectures.  No animal possesses a Von Neumann architecture.

As to the matter at hand, to wit, muscle control systems, you remain wrong.  Disproven. Undone by the evidence.
Deal with it.

You have no science, you are not doing science.
It is scientifically irresponsible to suggest otherwise.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,20:59   


Nova - Secrets of Noah's Ark

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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2015,21:25   

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Nova - Secrets of Noah's Ark

Relevance?

  
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Nova - Secrets of Noah's Ark

Relevance?

It just aired on PBS, throughout the US!

Must I really say more?

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