Scott Adams

intelligence.

over this next decade and a half is what really what is intelligence how do we identify alien intelligence for example right would we know alien intelligence if it came up to us and and i i would give you a thought experiment if i was an ant i would think everything in ant world terms we're humans and we think in human world terms intelligence to us

300 years ago looked radically different than intelligence to us today.

So we are highly anthropomorphized in understanding intelligence.

And we shouldn't beat ourselves up over it.

We're the fish in a fishbowl.

But you have to be open to be a child and be creative and to be able to say, look, mom, the cloud is a dog, right?

And

This means that you have to have ancillary thinking.

So what does that mean about intelligence?

I happen to believe that intelligence is not local, that we are receivers and transmitters, and that when you turn off the TV set, the people inside the TV aren't going to sleep inside the little box.

It's a transmission.

We're receiving and transmitting information.

Now, the local electronics, if you will,

have to work but this is what really blew my mind this is what changed me forever I'll tell you and it's a couple of studies but one was the the person I met that had almost no brain they had aphasia and and and their brain was about the size of thin salami and

And it was mostly, you know, brain fluid that was filling in the cavity.

Yeah.

And there's many examples.

So this is not a simple outlier.

And this is my problem with theories.