I think what makes human intelligence so confusing is that we have two distinct mental faculties, intuition and... reason, for the lack of better word (the Greek word was logos, but we've long forgotten its original meaning). The two combine in different proportions, and the development of both is highly influenced by the individual's experience.
The net result is what looks like multiple kinds of intelligence -- even though under the hood, again, it's just System 1 and System 2.
Fantastic! I wonder, is there any way to read it? I am particularly interested in System 2.
As you have noted in "Transcend", the brain is a prediction machine. System 1 predicts by making statistical inferences. Essentially, it's an AI -- or, rather, AI is an artificial replication of System 1 in humans. But -- and I could be wrong -- no one has offered a model/theory of how System 2 makes its predictions. Yes, "logic & reason", but that says little of what it does under the hood. As I see it, it's not even verbal/symbolic, it's visual in nature. And it's not just me -- "We know that Plato, like the Greeks in general, understands genuine knowledge as seeing.” (Heidegger)
I think what makes human intelligence so confusing is that we have two distinct mental faculties, intuition and... reason, for the lack of better word (the Greek word was logos, but we've long forgotten its original meaning). The two combine in different proportions, and the development of both is highly influenced by the individual's experience.
The net result is what looks like multiple kinds of intelligence -- even though under the hood, again, it's just System 1 and System 2.
I completely agree. In fact, this was the topic of my doctoral dissertation (I came up with a "dual-process theory of human intelligence").
Fantastic! I wonder, is there any way to read it? I am particularly interested in System 2.
As you have noted in "Transcend", the brain is a prediction machine. System 1 predicts by making statistical inferences. Essentially, it's an AI -- or, rather, AI is an artificial replication of System 1 in humans. But -- and I could be wrong -- no one has offered a model/theory of how System 2 makes its predictions. Yes, "logic & reason", but that says little of what it does under the hood. As I see it, it's not even verbal/symbolic, it's visual in nature. And it's not just me -- "We know that Plato, like the Greeks in general, understands genuine knowledge as seeing.” (Heidegger)
Isn't it the case that his hypothesis has been shown to not really hold up?
Atleast everything I have read and heard from intelligence researchers (the public ones) seems to suggest so.