Re: Cool visual illusion


Curt Welch wrote:

> I still believe very strongly in the concept
> that intelligence is actually very simple.
> Anyone that believes it's complex, simply
> doesn't understand what it really is yet.

Intelligence is the ability to "work things out".

This might be working out what someone else is
feeling (emotional intelligence), work out how
to run successful business, work out how to make
the best moves in a chess game, and in the case
of vision work out what is you are seeing (visual
intelligence).

http://www.socsci.uci.edu/cogsci/personnel/hoffman/vi.html

Some illusions are most likely due to some basic visual
processing functions and others learnt expectations about
visual scenes.

> And this visual illusion is a prime example.
> Will the unified theory on intelligence explain,
> or include this type of visual illusion?

Your assumption here is that there is one unified
theory (mechanism?) that explains intelligence.

For me intelligence is a collection of skills or
methods for working things out. Selecting the right
moves to achieve a desired outcome. These selecting
mechanisms might themselves been selected by the
survival value they had for the organism.

> And, my current belief, is that when we understand
> what it is, we will all see it as nothing more than
> a RL machine. Whatever "extra" systems are part
> of it, are just there to make RL work correctly.

Or maybe RL is just there to make the other "extra"
systems work correctly?

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John Casey

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