One thing though—in contrast to the other reply, I’m not so convinced by the problem that
No such general science of intelligence exists at the moment.
This would be like the folks at Los Alomos saying ‘well, we need to model the socioeconomic impacts of the bomb, plus we don’t even know what happens to a human subjected to such high pressures and temperatures, we need a medical model and a biological model’ etc. etc.
They didn’t have a complete science of socioeconomics. Similarly, we don’t have a complete science of intelligence. But I think we should be able to put together a model of some core step of the process (maybe within the realm of physics as you suggest) that can be brought to a discussion.
But thanks again for all the pointers, I will follow some of these threads.
Thanks very much for this thorough response!
One thing though—in contrast to the other reply, I’m not so convinced by the problem that
This would be like the folks at Los Alomos saying ‘well, we need to model the socioeconomic impacts of the bomb, plus we don’t even know what happens to a human subjected to such high pressures and temperatures, we need a medical model and a biological model’ etc. etc.
They didn’t have a complete science of socioeconomics. Similarly, we don’t have a complete science of intelligence. But I think we should be able to put together a model of some core step of the process (maybe within the realm of physics as you suggest) that can be brought to a discussion.
But thanks again for all the pointers, I will follow some of these threads.