On 14 Aug 2005 19:56:04 -0700, "Word Salad"
wrote:

George Hammond wrote:
human brain (which causes ENPg). This "Curvature" of subjective spacetime
is a magnification of subjective spacetime w.r.t. objective spacetime caused
by the Secular Trend in human growth, and which simply pushes as much as
20% of reality outside the perceptual bandwidth of the observer, thus making
20% of reality invisible to the average person. This "invisible world" then
is
known as "Heaven" in canonical religion. The invisible man who lives there
then is simply the 20% of the body which is ungrown (according to the well
known Secular Trend) and this (invisible) person is known historically as
"God".


In essense, what you are doing is providing a "wake up call" for the
sleeping billions. Possibly a very dangerous undertaking George. Let
the sleeping masses sleep, there is no need to shake the very
foundations of reality itself.

[Hammond]
I appreciate your concern. However, your concerns are
opposite my concerns.


Can we formulate a non-anthropomorphic definition of intelligence?

[Hammond]
Sure... information processing in bits/second is directly proportional
to human intelligence.

In fact the mental speed (in bits/sec) of any individual can
be easily measured. From that we can calculate IQ by:

IQ = 5 x (mental speed in bits/sec) + 25

(see http://www.v-weiss.de/lehrl-full.html pg 25 of 26, paragraph 2)

For instance the average mental speed in the adult population is
around 15 bits/sec, plugging that into the formula above gives
IQ=100, which is the average IQ.



A simple definition of intelligence would be: "comprehension ability".

[Hammond]
Bits per second is a lot simpler and more concrete, and is preciesly
measureable.



If that is still to anthropomorphic then one could leave the word
intelligence undefined. Then intelligence is not precisely defined

[Hammond]
Bits/second is PRECISELY DEFINED!




but
it still is a property of the universe.

[Hammond]
As far as I know the universe doesn't have any "intelligence".


That is to say, it is some
universal[natural] law. If intelligence is a law of the universe, it is
of both kinetic and potential form. As we observe intelligent beings in
this corner of the universe, we are witnessing the kinetic form of the
"law of intelligence".


[Hammond]
"Law of intelligence".... sounds pretty woo woo Sci-Fi to me?



The potential form exists within the fabric of reality itself, ready to
be unleashed - to be transformed into kinetic intelligence.

[Hammond]
Maybe you should be writing poetry instead of writing science?

Personally I prefer Alfred Noyes....:

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusting trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight above the purple moor.....



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