There are “cognitive skills” that contribute to “intelligence”. So then the question is: are those skills a certain kind of knowledge that can be learned?
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Then frankly, please leave this stuff in philosophy club and out of my discussions on real human beings, who have hardware of various means bestowed upon them via mechanisms entirely beyond their control.
...I don't fully buy my own sentiment, here, I just REALLY think there's another time and place when I'm trying to address a general audience that's suffering
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Based on what I know about your thoughts on education, a discussion involving hardware isn't what you want. You focus on the implicit / coersive memes that enable or inhibit learning on the software layer. The solution lies here, even for the lay person.
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Oh, FFS. What I want is a discussion where all the elements of what we think of as "intelligence" can be considered as a relationship between a person, the inputs available to them, and any limitations (including time) that impede the relationship. I want to understand.
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"Brains as computers" is one of my least favorite analogies. Maybe a good example of a suitcase concept. It makes people consider themselves only in terms of input-output and raw efficiency. The go-to metaphor before computers was gardens! Think about how much healthier that is!
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It's not a metaphor. It's provably the case. See the work of
@DavidDeutschOxf here https://aeon.co/essays/how-close-are-we-to-creating-artificial-intelligence … and elsewhere. Excerpt below. :) (It doesn't degrade one to be told they obey laws of physics, are made of atoms, one's brain is a computer, etc. Reality isn't an insult).pic.twitter.com/kACFTEaVex
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