Brain Building - Q1. Define Intelligence

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As for the Purpose of Intelligence, I respect the spirit of Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle:

• Aligning the Prediction to match the next Perception to reduce energy consumption and increase the odds of survival

As you may find if you dig around the forum, this has been the source of much debate. To save you some searching you can see some of that on this thread - with my two cents worth starting here:

Agency, Identity and Knowledge Transfer

I’m not sure if this adds anything but at the risk of muddying the waters, in two related threads we have been discussing the biological underpinnings of intelligence. The evolutionary history of integrated perception, cognition, and action and Affordance Competition Hypothesis In both the basic premise is that there are control loops that go from senses to motors, with some degree of processing between the two. In all cases, the goal is to select the best motor plan. The cortex part that a…