Re:Simple circuits can create complex behaviors
by RandomLensman on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:43PM
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I reckon there would probably still be some if else system going on the body of a newly dead person.
Re:Simple circuits can create complex behaviors
by kylecazar on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:35PM
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Not parent, but since we discussed in the other thread -- yeah, I think that's a good example of your observation that "intelligence" is broad and means different things depending on the context.
Cognitive intelligence in parent's example dies with you. It's gone. But a molecular biologist might say the cells of your corpse exhibit intelligence for some time after. They die gradually, and they do so according to a script of sorts.
As a crisp example: a newly dead person is almost exactly the same stuff as an alive person, but has no intelligence at all. Not a little less, as the difference in stuff would suggest.