What Are Intelligence? And Why?

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Summary

The author takes an interesting route to define the evolution of intelligence of human beings as different from animals. Based on the evolutionary evidences the rise of the human intelligence can be defined by various theories.

the primal tool maker: says that human intelligence was evolved from making effective tools. the killer frisbee theory suggests that human made frisbee to kill animals. There are various other theories. the killer climate, the primal frugivor, the primal psychologist, the primal linguist.

Then the author discusses the intelligence in other living beings. The mathematical ability of the horse clever hans which was for quite some time misunderstood as intelligence was later found out to be the ability of horse to pick up answers from the audience. The birds and bees does show some sort of intelligence, like the bees telling the direction of the flower field and parrot recognizing human speech and ability to communicate. Monkeys have also shown some of intelligence.

The evolution of the human intelligence has a more bilogical perspective attached to it and its spans over a million years.

Discussion

I loved this paper!. Human brain and intelligence has always intrigued me. The ability of the humans to perform various abstract calculations in no time is remarkable.

I agree with the idea of the author here that AI as a discipline should have more common in biology than mathematics and physics.