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Originally Posted by LonelySpoon
There's a great book called Blindsight that delves into this topic. And it's street cred is that it's the only Sci-Fi book that quotes academic sources at the back.. and there is a LOT of peer reviewed science quoted.. pages and pages of it. This is hard sci-fi at it's best.
And the basic premise of it, backed up by neuroscience (turn away now if you don't want it spoiled), is that intelligence is held back by consciousness. The potential for super intelligence would require removing this abstract layer that sits on top (our personality). And almost all of the time, your subconscious has already solved a problem, or is in the middle of solving it, or has already sent a message to your body to "perform function X"... but the conscious layer on top interprets this as "I made this choice" when really, it's more like a CEO receiving a report of what's already happened and then assuming they did the work.
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Before this matter can be discussed one must first define..."intelligence" and indeed "consciousness".......and "abstract layer" needs clarification as does "personality" and care must be taken to exaxtly set out the limitations of "perform function X" and more importantly who was Goldie Locks?
Alex