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One thing that I wish more people realized: intelligence is not something uniquely human that has evolved specifically for homo sapiens over the past 300,000 years. Many species share much of the same cognitive building blocks we possess
In particular the cognition of great apes is very close to our own, even though we branched out 6-7 M years ago. Our evolutionary cousins (other homo branches, australopithecus) would have been even closer. Unfortunately we can't include them in psychology studies anymore
The thing is, it takes a *very* long time to evolve new cognitive building blocks. Seemingly much longer than a mere handful of millions of years. We were not made overnight from Zeus' thigh
We've been just built on the cognitive and intelligence blocks and abilities of other species.
Can you elaborate ? E.g. other than great apes and how does it affect artificial intelligence research
Ants and bees. Sorry for all the big claims but we haven't even reached the intelligence of ants and bees. We will however. Three months maybe, six months definitely.
Yes, but doesn't that just show that most of our cognitive building blocks aren't the secret sauce that allows for the sort of "general" intelligence that powers science, other uniquely-human, awesome cognitive powers?
Why should there be a "secret sauce" in the first place?
Where is this quote from?
And many (e.g., bacteria) display intelligent behavior without a complex cognitive apparatus...and of course, are far more robust than homo sapiens.
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