What makes us intelligent?

 

“Modern neuroscience has revealed a brain made up of specialized networks, yet this fragmented view leaves open a central question: why human thought feels unified. A new neuroimaging study explores how large-scale patterns of communication across the brain give rise to general intelligence.” (ScitechDaily, Scientists May Have Found How the Brain Becomes One Intelligent System)

Finally. Researchers found. Why do brains start to form an intelligent entirety? Or they think that they have an answer for that question. We have multiple different cell types. In the brain. Some of those neurons work. With somatosensory. Some of them work with memories. Every single neuron type has its own role in the brain. The problem is, how those, maybe different, neuron types and brain areas orchestrate themselves to work as an entirety? This thing makes humans so different. When we talk. About things like consciousness. Sometimes we ask: why do things like animals escape predators? The answer is simple. When the predator starts to follow its prey, the rest of the pack can escape. 

Orchestrated brain cells make it possible. That. Humans can make things that are impossible for animals. The thing that makes that thing possible is that the human brain can handle abstraction. The abstraction means that when our company tells us that. We should beware things like wolves; we understand that thing. Without the need to see any wolves. This is one of the things that differentiates us from things. Like cows. When a wolf attacks one human. We will go to help that packmate. But cows do not make those things. 

They just escape, and a wolf kills one of them. Others will not help that poor member of the pack. Escaping can be a good choice, because most of the pack will survive. And the sacrificed member was always old and weak. That thing is an intelligent option. If the creature has no imagination. But in the cases of humans. Old people or old members of the group transmit hereditary knowledge to the next generation. 

We will always help other humans, because that benefits our species. When a species attacks, we can run, but we can also take a stone or some other weapon, and make a counter strike. Our brains are such a powerful tool. Because they start their operations at multiple points. At the same time. Our brains can connect memories into real-time observations. 

But then. We must realize that those neurons in our brains must behave as they behave to maximize their own benefit. As an orchestrated model where individual neurons serve the larger group of neurons, that thing gives them a benefit. Alone, one neuron is not a very dramatic thing. But. As a large group that controls the body. Those things make many things that are impossible. Orchestration gives those neurons power. And that makes them operate. As an intelligent entirety. In that case, intelligence means that we can make new things. Like houses, write computer programs. And make many things that are not happening just here and now. 

We could make a morphing neural network that mimics the human brain. We could divide its servers like neurons. They are divided in the human brain. We can make. The server group where each server has the same role as a certain brain area. Has in the human brain. This makes it possible to mimic the brain. 

The AI systems can manage things. Better. Than human brains, if they have ready-to-use models in their memories. This means that AI must face a similar situation before. If the AI must make. A new action model. It loses to human brains. The AI is not in a similar way. Flexible as human brains. When AI must make an action model. In a surprising situation, it loses. to human brains. 

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