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BI 159 Chris Summerfield: Natural General Intelligence

Brain Inspired

CHAPTER

The Concept of Intelligence in the Human Brain

I worried a lot about what to call the book. And I wanted to call it natural general intelligence by analogy with artificial general intelligence, obviously. But there was something that really put me off the title and that was the word intelligence itself,. Because that word has a really bad and with reason, right? The concept of intelligence is this sort of, you know, this essence of individuals. That we can use to kind of quantify and categorize people as maybe having more of it or less of it and so on.

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