(July 23, 2015 at 11:07 am)davidMC1982 Wrote: Are you not conflating intelligence with an ability to learn (or maybe I've missed your point and that's your entire premise)? I can't help feel that your examples are akin to giving a child a chess board and expecting them to play, without first teaching them the rules (equivalent to programming).
If you're talking about a narrow range of human intelligence concerning culture then yes, you need to program in rules. But most human intelligence doesn't involve that. The visual cortex has to self organise so that we can learn to recognise objects regardless of their orientation, size, scale, distance, colour, movement and whether they are partially obscured or not for example. But we're not aware of this happening in the brain, we just see an apple when someone holds it up and throws it as us. Babies are not given rules for how their cerebellum should adapt, except perhaps not to pick their noses. Even language will self organise in small groups of people abandoned by their own culture.
And for the most part, intelligence occurs in animals that are not humans. Maybe you could argue that packs have rules but these are also partly instinctual.
If we're going to start off simple and build up then it's too early to consider programming in rules.
