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Simplifying Complexity

Intelligence 1: What makes us intelligent?

Apr 17, 2023
29:52

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  • Intelligence is closely linked to complexity, emerging from networks of adaptive agents and challenging anthropocentric assumptions.
  • Understanding intelligence involves dimensions of strategy, inference, and representation, with collective cultural artifacts playing a crucial role in enhancing it.

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The Nature of Intelligence and Complexity

Intelligence is closely linked to complexity, as intelligence emerges from networks of adaptive agents. The brain, for example, is a network of neurons that collectively generate intelligent behavior. There is an ongoing debate about whether intelligence should be defined based on its structure or output. Modern approaches to understanding intelligence utilize complexity science techniques such as information theory and network neuroscience. The study of intelligence has a history of being anthropocentric and has often overlooked intelligence in non-human organisms.

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