Beyond Human Intelligence

Consider what is intelligence.

Listen or read interview (link below) from Emergence Magazine with James Bridle, author of Ways of Being: animals, plants, machines: the search for a planetary intelligence.

I have a hold at the library here to maybe get to read that book. In the meantime, I listened to the interview, though sometimes I had trouble with James' accent. But I do still have a written text of it as well, in the Magazine, Vol. 4. (I wonder if there will be a Vol. 5.)

An Ecological Technology This link will have the audio version as well as written text.

I was particularly interested in his views on Artificial Intelligence.

And as I mentioned in a previous blog, I was reading the book: Eve: How the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution, by Cat Bohannon.  And coincidentally reading the chapter about the brain and intelligence, when I was able to listen to this interview with Bridle which urged me to consider other sources and kinds of intelligence.

The tree intelligence immediately came to mind. Then just the whole of life on earth, sharing together so many interdependent things. 

The greatest reason to do weight exercises

You probably don't have a trainer, or an expert on body mechanics like a physical therapist does. 

 Experts say 'there are four types of exercises we should all be getting to help us stay active: endurance, strength, balance, and flexibility'

I sure don't do enough. And then there's - Weight training.

Whatever you call them...they make your muscles work.

Here's a great book, with a lot more information besides this that I've clipped today for my women friends past menopause,,,aka 'crones,' those who no longer have estrogen helping their bones have lots of calcium.

I've enjoyed each chapter, and it's got so many references, I have two bookmarks going, one for the chapter I'm reading, one for that chapter's notes. Serious references, but also interesting comments about the references.

Ardi is a skeleton which represents a step toward homo-sapiens in evolutaion.

I I'm glad she includes the average US woman because I'm 5' 5" and weigh 170 pounds...but consider myself over weight! This was very nice news! The footnote considers women in UK and Canada and France too.

Older women are encouraged to...

Tugging encourages the anchors of muscles to bones to ADD MORE CALCIUM, STRENGTHENING THE BONE.  A simple way to counteract the dangers of osteoporosis!

And some of the good notes about this bone/muscle calcium growth.

This has been my bedtime reading for the last month. I love that it's scientifically based, but written in a light vocabulary, sometimes humorous. I still have to look up some words.

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And the other night (having read much further by now in the book) I was reading about intelligence and tests to determine it. Then today I had a video pop up from Emergence Magazine (this was Sunday) about an interview with James Bridle, who wrote "Ways of Being." 

The discussion focused on intelligence that was not necessarily human...nor Artificial Intelligence. I was intrigued, then had to go to church (a musical performance with 5 spiritual messages, but on the way home the public radio station was talking about the recent A.I. CEO who was fired, then rehired, and the issues of working on A.I. So all during this time my brain was delightfully playing with all other kinds of intelligence.

After all, A. I. is not only human based, it's binary. Just ask any Buddhist about duality. Just step off that conveyor belt of either/or ways of looking at things... 

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Another blog post today is also about this book. I've deleted my comment, because not everyone will see it...so here's her link.  Check out Interim Arrangements. 

She's talking about language as when we became human.

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And A GREAT RESOURCE: NY Public Library Digital Collections

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No more quotes today, but here's a pic.

While waiting for dentist the other day, I saw this bottle. OK, I asked the assistant, can you just spray that in my mouth and kill all the cavities? She said, no, it's just for cleaning the equipment. Phooey!