I just read this one from Hofstadter's book;
Quote:
Essential abilities for intelligence are certainly:
i) to respond to situations very flexibly;
ii) to take advantage of fortuitous circumstances;
iii) to make sense out of ambiguous or contradictory messages;
iv) to recognise the relative importance of different elements of a situation;
v) to find similarities between situations, despite differences which may separate them;
vi) to draw distinctions between situations, despite similarities which may link them;
vii) to synthesise new concepts by taking old concepts and putting them together in new ways;
viii) to come up with ideas which are novel.
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I reckon these are pretty cool distinctions for intelligence.
If one lines up with them, and agrees with Hofstadter, then there would seem to be more hope in the future that Bert cites, (over that which Bert foresees), if we are truly an intelligent species …. as Les asserts !
Cheers