Re:Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
by BooglyWoo on Monday September 04, 2017 @08:09AM
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As another user TheOtherHobbes noted, humans share this characteristic with insects to some extent:
> Wild solo humans are only a little smarter than wolves individually, but being able to share and externalise invention and learning created a massive advantage.
This seems to resonate with a strain of Philosophy of Mind https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/content-externalism/ which deals with our mental content being distributed not only around the brain and body, but on paper, computers and relations with other people.
> Wild solo humans are only a little smarter than wolves individually, but being able to share and externalise invention and learning created a massive advantage.
This seems to resonate with a strain of Philosophy of Mind https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/content-externalism/ which deals with our mental content being distributed not only around the brain and body, but on paper, computers and relations with other people.