I’m not sure I agree with this. For instance, changing one’s “velocity” in a controlled manner seems nearly impossible in practically all cellular automata for various reasons, partly because they lack Poincare invariance. Could one have intelligent life without this?
I’m pretty sure you can have intelligent life arise in computational environments that lack any sort of notion of velocity. E.g., the computational environments of the brain and current DL systems seem able to support intelligence, but they don’t have straightforward notions of velocity.
They are created by other intelligent minds, though. What I mean is, would it be adaptive for intelligence to evolve without velocity?
I would analogize it to plants vs animals. Animals tend to be much more intelligent than plants, presumably because their ability to move around means that they have to deal with much more varied conditions, or because they can have much more complex influences on the world. These seem difficult to achieve without varying one’s velocity. There’s also stuff like social relations; inanimate organisms might help or hurt each other, but they probably have to do so in much simpler ways, since their positions relative to each other are fixed, while animals can more easily interact with others in more complex ways and have more varying relations.
I’m not sure I agree with this. For instance, changing one’s “velocity” in a controlled manner seems nearly impossible in practically all cellular automata for various reasons, partly because they lack Poincare invariance. Could one have intelligent life without this?
I’m pretty sure you can have intelligent life arise in computational environments that lack any sort of notion of velocity. E.g., the computational environments of the brain and current DL systems seem able to support intelligence, but they don’t have straightforward notions of velocity.
They are created by other intelligent minds, though. What I mean is, would it be adaptive for intelligence to evolve without velocity?
I would analogize it to plants vs animals. Animals tend to be much more intelligent than plants, presumably because their ability to move around means that they have to deal with much more varied conditions, or because they can have much more complex influences on the world. These seem difficult to achieve without varying one’s velocity. There’s also stuff like social relations; inanimate organisms might help or hurt each other, but they probably have to do so in much simpler ways, since their positions relative to each other are fixed, while animals can more easily interact with others in more complex ways and have more varying relations.