Re: How much intelligence?



chadmaester wrote:
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I agree about the hardware. I believe I remember
reading in a book I borrowed from a professor
(Fundamentals of Neuropsychology) something
about a section of the brain that (supposedly?)
gives us speech abilities.


Speech I see as a global activity involving the
whole brain. Certain cortical areas are required
for certain language functions but I doubt they
are there *just* for speech production or speech
decoding.

...

But, associative learning is emotional, where
an input causes a positive or negative feeling
by virtue of its direct or indirect association
with pleasure or pain, and that feeling causes
us to approach or flee the cause of the input.
It's all about what is good or bad, as directly
experienced, and what is associated with those
good or bad things, as directly experienced.
We still operate this way, but not exclusively.

I think I have to partially disagree with this.
I don't think associative learning is emotional;
rather, it is based on stimulus - or is it not?
By emotions do you mean stimulus?



Association first requires finding or identifying
something to associate and then deciding if to
make that association. Both functions I believe
are made by evolved innate modules that vary
between different animals.

...

Logic - do you think this is done in the human
mind via some form of set theory?


The manipulation of abstract objects uses the same
machinery as the manipulation of real objects.
Formal logic is a set of rules taught in school.

...

Curt, with what Liz said about mimicing behavior,
do you think this is can be explained using the
behaviorist approach?


Imitation is more complex than it looks.
To quote from "The Blank Slate" by Steven Pinker:
Chpt4 Culture Vultures:

".. the robot has to be equipped with an ability
to see into the mind of the person being imitated,
so that it can infer the person's goals and pick
out the aspects of behavior that the person
intended to achieve the goal."

He makes reference to the work of Rodney Brooks
who wants to build a robot that learns by imitation.

--
JC

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