Agreed. I’m not sure there’s much to gain from a taxonomy like yours, because there’s too many details that have been abstracted away. Understanding intelligence is a difficult scientific problem, and we need a technical explanation of intelligence. It is not clear to me how one would extend what you’ve written into such an explanation.
My point is, if you’re going to talk about bacteria in a way that characterizes them incorrectly, why talk about bacteria at all?
You should do this in the post?
So you point is that I am wrong on bacteria. I agree, let’s move on.
Agreed. I’m not sure there’s much to gain from a taxonomy like yours, because there’s too many details that have been abstracted away. Understanding intelligence is a difficult scientific problem, and we need a technical explanation of intelligence. It is not clear to me how one would extend what you’ve written into such an explanation.