BRAIN
Intelligence: From Lat. intellegere (“discern, understand” lit. “picking up/reading in between.” Intelligence is the complex ability to read and express our own emotions, the expressions of others, and mediate between both using a form of language. Generally speaking, human intelligence manifests directly or indirectly between two or more humans interacting with each other in some form of language. Without a form of interplay between emotion and language, human understanding can neither be experienced internally as thought, nor externally through language. This is why so called Artificial Intelligence differs fundamentally from human intelligence: It has no understanding. Computers don’t feel, think or understand themselves or others. Thusm they cannot be called intelligent. Thinking hurts, and if it doesn’t then it’s not thinking but simulated or pretended thinking. AI understands Plato as much as a pocket calculator understands what it does adding 2+2. The axiom “computers don’t understand” is sometimes referred to as “Chris’ Law”, which may become obsolete once AI startups start using human bodies to receive, process, and produce language. Right now it’s unclear how that would be different from two people interacting intelligently with each other.
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