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thousand_nightsyesterday at 11:03 PM3 repliesview on HN

i don't know, are we intelligent?

you could argue that our input (senses) entirely define the output (thoughts, muscle movements, etc)


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HPsquaredtoday at 12:05 AM

There's a bit of baked-in stuff as well. We are a full culture-mind-body[-spirit] system.

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bossyTeachertoday at 7:22 AM

The whole point of humans is the way we process the input. Every life form out there receives sound vibrations and has photons hitting their body all the time, not everyone uses that information in the same way or at all. That plus natal reflexes and hardcoded assumptions