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tancop • today at 3:37 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> If you saw creatures behaving like this in the wild, you might attribute some rudimentary intelligence to them.

> But we’ve just shown you how this apparent intelligence arises from the bottom up, with just four neurons and two connections. There’s no magic here. In this view, behavior emerges from neural circuits.

Isn't the conclusion here that very simple behaviors like the sparks are intelligent? I would say even a single neuron has some tiny amount of intelligence, and what the author means by "no magic" and "emergent behavior" is just a different perspective that minimizes it.


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WarmWash • today at 3:48 PM

Intelligence is an arbitrary term humans assign to stuff subjectively.

Take out the "human" and it's all just algos on a scale of complexity.

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