The secret of intelligence
By Oleksandr Kostikov
I continue to introduce you to a series of articles on the nature of human intelligence and the future of artificial intelligence systems. In the previous article "Artificial intelligence vs neurophysiology: Why the difference matters" we found out that the basis of the work of any biological nervous system is not a computational function (like in a computer), but a reflex or a prepared answer.
But how then did our intelligence come about? How did a biological system repeating pre-prepared reactions become a powerful creative machine?
In this article, we will answer this question in the language of facts. Creating our intelligence, nature has found a simple and at the same time ingenious solution, which is not devoid of a great mystery, which we will also touch.
Forget about our own uniqueness—we are just part of the system
To understand how our intellect works, we must, first, abandon the obsessive and selfish idea of our own uniqueness. For the past 150 years, scientists have been constantly trying to find evidence of the biological uniqueness of our brains. There is a stereotype in science that something in our history has become a kind of magic wand, thanks to the “magic influence of which” we got our intellect. At first, we were told that the work made a person, then they began to repeat about language and social connections, now the idea appeared that the reward is enough.
All this, of course, is our fantasies, dictated by innate existential egocentrism. We are pleased to think that we are the pinnacle and even the goal of evolution. In fact, the human brain is just another stage in the development of life. As soon as the first two neurons united into a common chain, the creation of an intelligent nervous system became inevitable for the biosphere of our planet.
How it all began
The functional basis of any biological nervous system is a reflex, or a simple path along which a nerve impulse goes from one neuron to another. The word “path” is very important since this is the most important difference between biological intelligence and the artificial intelligence we create. Our thoughts are not special signals, but special pathways along which nerve impulses travel.
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Read more of Oleksandr’s articles:
Symbiosis instead of evolution: A new idea about the nature of human intelligence
Artificial intelligence vs neurophysiology: Why the difference matters
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