PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Synaptic Pruning, Combinatorial Explosion, Intelligent Designer
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Stanovich argues that general intelligence is the ability to avoid combinatorial explosion. Cherniak,vervaeke , ferraro argues that it is the ability to realize relevance. Other things needed for intelligence: problem solving, getting out of dead ends: speed is only a quantitative measure not qualitative measure, does not tell you what kind of processing you need for intelligence". Not only speed of processing, but what kind of processing comes out of it. Hypothesis: evidence for this is by neubauer who found that intelligent people with higher iq activate less of their cortex (seem counter intuitive) Is this sufficient to explain the intelligent brain. If you are efficient, you are not only fast but also you are fast without making a lot of mistakes. Do i want to be efficient at making long or short term predictions: intelligent brains can achieve more results for less energy (i. e they are more efficient). they get more bang for their metabolic buck.
