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Welcome! This site is dedicated to ideas and resources for boosting your functional intelligence (... without implants!) Here you will find puzzles and tests to hone your thinking skills, as well as articles and references on the care and feeding of the brain-mind, structures and manouvres of intelligent investigation, and the other sorts of intelligence which can make all the difference in life.
In this issue we spotlight the work of Dan Goleman on emotional intelligence. If you are not familiar with this idea, explore some of the work listed below; in a nutshell: think of someone you met who was very smart, but a complete jerk. Or someone with a staggeringly high IQ, leading a miserable life. The key in these apparent paradoxes is emotional intelligence. Dan Goleman pioneered this idea, and has built a considerable body of well-respected work since. His newest work, "Destructive Emotions", is a series of dialogues with the Dalai Lama and western investigators on the interplay of the mind, the emotions and physical health .
Communication with Alien Intelligence Marvin Minsky, MIT When first we meet those aliens in outer space, will we and they be able to converse? I'll try to show that, yes, we will -- provided they are motivated to cooperate -- because we'll both think similar ways. My arguments for this are very weak but let's pretend, for brevity, that things are clearer than they are. I'll propose two reasons why aliens will think like us, in spite of different origins. All problem-solvers, intelligent or not, are subject to the same ultimate constraints -- limitations on space, time, and materials. In order for animals to evolve powerful ways to deal with such constraints, they must have ways to represent the situations they face, and they must have processes for manipulating those representations. (Read the full paper here... ) AI BRIEFING "Matrioshka Brains" Fantastic Visions of the Artificial Brain Builders "Matrioshka Brains consume the entire power output of stars (~1026 W), consume all of the useful construction material of a solar system (~1026 kg), have thought capacities limited by the physics of the universe and are essentially immortal." (Read on... it gets pretty wild...) The Singularity: A Talk with Ray Kurzweil We are entering a new era. I call it "the Singularity." It's a merger between human intelligence and machine intelligence is going to create something bigger than itself. (Read on at Edge.org...) The Coming Superintelligence: Who Will Be in Control? by Amara D. Angelica At some point in the next several decades, as machines become smarter than people, they'll take over the world. Or not. What if humans get augmented with smart biochips, wearables, and other enhancements, accessing massive knowledge bases ubiquitously and becoming supersmart cyborgs who stay in control by keeping machines specialized? Or what if people and machines converge into a mass-mind superintelligence? (Read on at Kurzweil.net...) Re advanced AI, see also Artilect World, and Hugo DeGaris, a brainbuilder extraordinaire using neural nets and field-programmable gate arrays to achieve self-learning intelligences. DeGaris asks, "Do we build gods, or do we build our potential exterminators?" Brain puzzles, and other links of interest: Thinks.com Puzzle Page / Teachnet: Brain Binders / Brain Bashers / Syvuum Brain Teaser Page / BoardStiffGames / BrainBuilder (no "s"!) Google: Brain Imaging / Critical Thinking Skills |
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