Intelligence 1: What makes us intelligent?
Simplifying Complexity
The History of Intelligence
In the history of intelligence, there was a big fight between B. F. Skinner and Noam Chomsky. Skinner believed that if you formed a behavior that was good, it'd be reinforced. If it was bad, it would be punished. And Chomsky said, oh, hold on a minute. We invented the language we're speaking. It's sort of like the ultimate chessboard. You can look at the history of chess through this lens, which I have, how the chessboard has changed. There are rules that have been introduced to make it richer. That back and forth between individual minds and brains is the process that I call X-bodymange.
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