Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities? (2018)

Re:Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities? (2018) by throwaway_pdp09 on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:32PM (#23458650)

At school with me were 2 guys who were not that academic but they were natural sportsmen. They had something very evidently we didn't, and it's hard to put a finger on it. One became a semi-pro fooballer (football, UK). Their competence on the pitch or elsewhere was extraordinary.

Whatever that special thing is, once you see it in action you realise it's a genuine facet of something. You may not want to call it an intelligence, but I'm ok with doing so. It wasn't a physical thing, they weren't physically special, ergo it was a mental thing. "Intelligence" covers that quite well, I think.

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Re:Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities? (2018) by nitrogen on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:59PM (#23458955)

I think the distinction being drawn by other commenters is that this physical learning ability is impressive and desirable, but not generally applicable to arbitrary problems to the same degree as whatever "g" might be.

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Re:Human-Level Intelligence or Animal-Like Abilities? (2018) by throwaway_pdp09 on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:37PM (#23459359)

ISWYM but I did carefully call it "an intelligence". I strongly agree what you say about it not being like, or obviously related to, or an aspect of, general intelligence, but I'm happy to call it 'an' intelligence. There's a risk you're defining something out of existence so as not to encroach on an existing definition. Or maybe you're right. This isn't my field.

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