N.Wells
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| Quote (GaryGaulin @ Aug. 05 2014,01:23) | | Quote (N.Wells @ Aug. 03 2014,15:42) | I have long been asking you for an operational definition of intelligence that includes your concept of intelligence in molecules, so that I can figure out how much intelligence is present in a given molecule: in other words, I want to know what you propose to measure and how you propose to measure it. That's pretty much what NoName wants, just from a slightly different perspective. This is not "messing with your head" - it's fundamental. Until you can answer all those types of questions satisfactorily, you've got nothing (except a waste of electrons).
Without it, your talk of intelligence at molecular levels is exactly tantamount to writing a long and incomprehensible essay about gas mileage of ice cream cones (and how that disproves car journeys). |
I did not invent the phrase "Molecular Intelligence" and never has it in academia been used to suggest that all molecules are intelligent.
The detail you are asking for is contained the "Introduction – Intelligent Cause, Intelligence" section on page 1. I made it obvious that the entire thing operationally defines Intelligent Cause and Intelligence. It's paragraphs were recently sorted out to better flow as a single operational definition.
This is the pdf with the operational definition you are asking for:
https://sites.google.com/site.......ign.pdf
Or:
Theory Download Page
And for more tech-talk I put almost all my writing time into putting thought into this:
http://ncse.com/blog.......7973431 |
I'm well aware that you claim to have an operational definition. As we've discussed numerous times in the past, unfortunately, this is just an empty assertion on your part.
| Quote | | At all levels the same operational definition for intelligence is an autonomous sensory-feedback (confidence) guided sensor-addressed memory system that through trial-and-error learns new successful actions to be taken in response to environmental conditions. The computer models show this common to all levels intelligence mechanism has four necessary requirements that qualify a system as intelligence. A system has gone from useful but not yet intelligent reflexive protointelligence, to a self-learning intelligence when all four requirements are noticeably met: (1) Something intelligence can control such as motors, muscles, microplasts, self-sustaining metabolism of Krebs Cycle. Coacervates demonstrate uncontrolled molecular (non-intelligent) ionic propulsion, that when controlled produces and powers spinning flagella motors and other forms of locomotion. We can say that coacervates are a twitching body with no brain/intelligence to control it. (2) Sensor addressed memory to store successful motor actions to be taken in response to sensed environmental conditions. Addressable memories include digital RAM chips, RNA, DNA, metabolic pathway temporal memory that recalls the past by levels of sensed molecules in its flow, and synaptic neural networks where data values can be represented as an analog weight. (3) Sensory feedback to gauge failure or success in actions here called “confidence”. In molecular intelligence the confidence levels are gauged as in cybernetics the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems, including molecular systems that are required for basic growth and division of cells is in part covered by homeostasis. In the E.coli chemotaxis system confidence level is a “sensory adaptation” that produces one behavior over another according to immediate needs. Also quorum sensing where communication molecules that cells secrete into the environment coordinate their collective actions so they all do the same thing at the same time to meet the needs of the entire population. (4) A guess mechanism to try a new action. Good guesses as in crossover exchange safely controls design variation to produce offspring each different from each other (not clones) and gene level recombination of small conserved domains of self-assembling nuts and bolts that build and motor parts of complex molecular machinery that all together keep living things alive. In watery environment chemotaxis of e.coli a guess in direction is taken by tumbling action produced by briefly switching flagellum motors in reverse direction. In chromosome fusion protective repeats that do not stick together with ends of to chromosomes to splice together are lost which makes them sticky, encouraging new their fusion into one. Digital RAM chips can only address one address location at a time, putting the guess mechanism on the data side, one by one changing data stored at each data location. In a living genome the stored data is always responding by being expressed in parallel, to produce self-assembling protein machinery and communication molecules to other systems helping to control them. Guesses can here also be taken by physically changing addressing location with mobile transposition (jumping genes) mechanism to move to a new location in the memory system. |
This does not say what to measure or how to measure it, so it is not an operational definition. There is no standard meaning of intelligence that can include "controlling" the Krebs cycle, and you have not succeeded in redefining it. 1 & 2 exclude some of the highest examples of intelligence, along the lines of composing a melody, planning or evaluating your life, or thinking up an hypothesis and ways to test it. You'd have a better case for applying these to the first stirrings of intelligence, in animals with rudimentary brains, rather than all of intelligence. As pointed out long ago in this thread, #3 includes things like autofocus mechanisms in cameras and Neato robot vacuum cleaners, while biochemical feedback systems like various forms of taxis are understood as chemical reactions with no place to insert "intelligence": doing so just reduces "intelligence" to an empty label that you plaster all over the place because it makes you feel good. "Taking guesses" is not a useful addition to the definition of intelligence when it includes random impositions from physics and chemistry. Etc., etc., etc.
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