On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:12:02 GMT, "Tom Capizzi"
wrote:
"George E. Hammond" wrote in message
.. .
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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What an idiot. Just like you shouldn't let the inmates run the asylum,
we should never accept the premises of [Hammond]. With his tortured
logic you can "prove" anything. In the first place he perverts the sense
of a "bit". It is the smallest increment of data (like a monochrome pixel).
It is irrelevant that 20 characters can be represented in 5 bits. To
recognize a character involves orders of magnitude more information
than a few bits. If it were that simple, computers would easily recognize
text.
In the second place, it is also irrelevant that a list of 20 characters are
involved. It is the number of symbols in the universe, not in the
artificially
restricted set, which determines the amount of processing involved to
identify a character. If humans processed information at the bit rate
[Hammond] claims, the we would be slower than the most primitive amoeba.
Third, his claim totally ignores the fact that there is a substantial amount
of
parallel processing going on at the same time as the character recognition.
[Hammond]
This line of irrelevant spute shows how worthless bigmouth amateurs
like you actually are.
Of course it takes more bits to recognize Times Roman from a Gothic
type face, or to tell the color of the print, than it does to tell an
A from a B or a C.
Fact is, it is a proven working fact of everyday research that
recognizing a single letter from the alphabet requires 2^4.7 = 5 bits,
and DECADES or published research data have used and confirmed
that fact... all of which YOU are unaware of.
You're stupid... an IQ test is not changed because your sensory
system is telling you you have to take a ****, or that there is a
scent of roses in the air, or your ass itches. Higher level cognitive
functions operate independently of such myriads of sensory input..
such as what typeface the IQ test is written in, or what color ink...
or the fact that the test appears to be printed on 30# bond
watermarked paper.
Did you ever stop to figure out asshole, why the FUSION fRAME
RATE of a movie film is equal to the maximum bits/sec of the
observer.... what an asshole... the fact
that thousands of bits of information are contained in the film
has NO EFFECT on the PFF..... for the same reason the thousands
of visual bits on an IQ test has nothing to do with the speed with
which you can identify which one of the 26 letters appears in the
parenthesis (Z)... namely Z. Fact is, it takes 5 bits of information
processing.... and decades of research by thousands of
researchers have CONFIRMED as a practical fact, that that
decision time can be easily isolated, and measured.... despite
the fact that 1,000 bits of sensory itching information is coming in
telling you that the broad you slept with last weekend probably gave
you the crabs. Fact is, the Picture Fusion Frequency, is one of
the world's most DRAMATIC PROOFS of that fact... even though
the film may be of a P-51 Mustang firing 1,000 rounds per
minute at 300 mph flying over thousands of trees... the fact is
that the PFF is only 15 frames/sec for the average person,
can be easily measured, and is a reliable predictor of the
person's IQ !
That happens to be an experimental fact confirmed by 100 years
of testing.
Fourth, he ignores the the fact that visual recognition is an unreliable
indicator. People with various degrees of dyslexia would have poor
performance in his little pop quiz, but that doesn't make them any less
intelligent than people with normal vision.
[Hammmond]
Also.. you're such an arrogant asshole you presume the PhD's and MD's
conducting these tests wouldn't be aware of such obvious things, and
you are also unaware that they spend half their lives testing dyslexic
and mentally impared people......... simply because you are a boring
loudmouth asshole.
Finally, I'm tired of seeing your spute on my threads, so I'm adding
your name to my killfile list:
killfile, news/mail: "Tom Capizzi"
I've already killfiled Wake, TMG, and ZenIsWhen... more will follow
as they show up and post boring, ignormant, worthless, ****.
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