[Fis] Chuan's reply10 - THE FRONTIERS OF INTELLIGENCE SCIENCE

[Roulette Wm. Smith, Ph.D.]

Greetings Foundation for Information Science Colleagues:

I have been following more than 45 previous [FIS] messages regarding 
Dr. Chuan Zhao's recent book entitled THE FRONTIERS OF INTELLIGENCE 
SCIENCE. Regretfully, I have not seen or read the book, even though I 
concede that my following comments may take a different form if I were 
to read its text.

At the outset, I can agree to a need for intelligence science(s) ... 
apart from information sciences and machine intelligence. That said, I 
am concerned by some lack in clarity regarding various matters. For 
example, I see no reason to ever equate intelligence with wisdom. 
Also, artificial intelligence paradigms and intelligence paradigms 
remain to be elucidated and explicated. Indeed, some persons have 
cited "context" and "goals" wherein I believe that "shedding light 
on," "elucidation," "explication," et al. should be central issues for 
intelligence science(s).

Because of my recent interest in common sense, aberrant common sense, 
and, interestingly, how aberrant common sense can contribute to chaos 
and stupidity, I believe that all intelligence sciences should include 
discussions on evolution and development. Dr. Zhao and others could 
benefit from investigating common sense(s), critical thinking and 
intelligence(s) in worldwide cultures and languages. To cite one 
example of the latter, the notion of the subjunctive (in English 
language) and its absence in selected other languages is critically 
important in any disciplinary and/or 
interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary discussions intelligence sciences.

If future discussions of intelligence sciences explore biological 
issues (e.g., neural networking et al.), then those discussions also 
must explore Kantian notions of the a priori and a posteriori. Also, 
as Joe Brenner pointed out, future cosmological notions of 
intelligence sciences should not overlook science fiction writer and 
philosopher Stanislaw Lem's perspectives. Ethnomethodologies then may 
become central foci.

Lastly, I suggest that Dr. Zhao's points (a) to (m) are overly 
simplistic.

With cordial greetings,
/rws

Roulette Wm. Smith, Ph.D. - Director
Institute for Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Studies
P. O. Box 60846
Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pub/roulette-wm-smith/8/ab9/255/
Email: najms at postgraduate-interdisciplinary-studies.org
Email: najms at humanized-technologies.com

PS: I noted that Professor Lofti Zadeh added a comment early in the 
discussion. He may be surprised to know that he and I attended several 
mathematics classes at Stanford University during the early-1960s.


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> Subject: Re: [Fis] Chuan's reply10 - THE FRONTIERS OF INTELLIGENCE 
> SCIENCE--poetry/mathematics/new science
> From: Rafael Capurro <rafael at capurro.de>
> To: 赵川 <zhaoc at cdut.edu.cn>
> Cc: =?UTF-8?B?RklT6K665Z2b?= <fis at listas.unizar.es>
> Date: Tuesday, 24/03/2015  9:12 AM
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> Dear Chuan,
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> yes, intelligence and stupidity belong together as the wonderful       
> quote from Alice clearly show. If we develop a science of       
> intelligence we cannot do it without developing a science of       
> studipidity (including also subfields like hate speech that I call     
>   'insultology' and many other matters). Then this science becomes     
>   interwoven with ethics. If we follow Wittgenstein and Nietzsche      
>  and Heidegger and other 'pragmatists' intelligence is primarily a     
>   practical issue: it has to do with survival. Then, we have made of   
>     intelligence something 'theoretical'. A science of intelligence    
>    must deal with both aspects including also the 'negative' forms     
>   (stupidity etc.)
> best
> Rafael
>
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