On 14 Aug 2005 21:05:26 -0700, "Word Salad"
wrote:


George E. Hammond wrote:

Can we formulate a non-anthropomorphic definition of intelligence?

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



Computation speed is not exactly a definition of intelligence. No
computers have ever won the Nobel prize.

[Hammond]
I din't say mental speed is a "definition" of intelligence. I said
"mental speed is PROPORTIONAL to intelligence"... meaning it is an
INDICATOR of intelligence.

In fact the official (legal and scientific) definition of intelligence
is your score on an IQ test. If for instance your score is less
than 70 in most states you would be legally classified as
mentally retarded.

Fact is, measured mental speed is an INDICATOR of IQ.. in fact
it has been found that:

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

Your mental speed (in bits/sec) can be measured by a myriad
of simple laboratory tests. In fact, since identifying one letter
out of the 26 letter alphabet involves 5 bits of information since
(26 = 2^4.7 = 4.7 bits, rounded off to the next highest bit = 5
bits)... we see that simply reading (out loud or silently) the
following 20 letter string of letters:

L P H M O T V F R G S X E B A K M I D Z

amounts to 100 bits (5x20) of information processing. If you
can do it in, say, 4.8 seconds, then your mental speed is 100/4.8
= 20.8 bits/second. according to the above formula your IQ
would then be:

IQ = 5 (20.8) + 25 = 129


Go ahead... use your digital watch and try it.


And by the way,
a computer has a "high processing speed", but that doesn't
mean it has any intelligence.. because there has never been
a computer built that could take an IQ test... which is the
official legal and scientific) definition of human intelligence.

Yawn....


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