“F=T∇Sτ” ~Alexander Wissner-Gross
Pretty sure that’s the most important discovery of the 21st century. Notice I didn’t say “so far.”
Yeah. I’m calling it this early.
“In the equation, F is a force that acts so to maximize future freedom of action, to keep options open with some strength, T with S, an amount of diversity to possible accessible futures, up to some future time horizon, Tau.”
Give me one example of an intelligent behavior that isn’t an attempt to maximize the number of future options. Sacrificing one’s self at the behest of one’s genes isn’t intelligent or is at best an indirect investment in something which the intelligence has come to identify with.
An intelligent agent acting in this way is deploying their intelligence not for their own good directly but for the good of the genes which provide the substrate for their existence. (Kin selection and altruism.)
But assuming a desert island, last being in creation sort of context, I can think of no intelligent action that falsifies the assertion. If you’re right it should be easy to falsify. But it isn’t.
The entropy mechanism just explains how intelligence can arise from a purely mechanistic and unintelligent setting.
It is not at all far fetched to me that a simple physical law should form the foundation of intellect.
“Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.” ~Edward Robert Harrison
See also:
http://www.insidescience.org/content/physicist-proposes-new-way-think-about-intelligence/987
http://www.33rdsquare.com/2013/12/an-equation-for-intelligence.html
Click to access PhysRevLett_110-168702.pdf
