George E. Hammond wrote:

[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

No - ONE other crank, in ONE paper (dismissed by everyone else) thought
that for a while.

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

Yep - that would be the ONE crank's ONE dismissed paper.

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.

That just doesn't make sense. What is your bit/sec watching a movie or
TV? Even just reading text on a page, it's a multiple of 15 bps. What
your typing (at more than 15 bps) refutes this.

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


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

and it's not 15 bps.

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!

Yes - and so is nose/red. Why is "PRECISELY DEFINED" correct? Any sort
of gibberish can be "PRECISELY DEFINED"! With CAPS!

but
it still is a property of the universe.


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

The greatest proof AGAINST the SPOG you've ever typed.

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?

Better to claim that there is an inviable "god", with inviable forces,
taking universal actions, using infinite energy, at infinite speed,
across all times. That makes a lot more sense.

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....:

Yes...

Search for the foe in thine own soul,
The sloth, the intellectual pride;
The trivial jest that veils the goal
For which our father lived and died;
The lawless dreams, the cynic Art,
That rend thy nobler self apart.