On 12/13/06, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nope. I think, for example, that the process of evolution is universal -- it
shows the key feature of exponential learning growth, but with a very slow
clock. So there're other models besides a mammalian brain.
My mental model is to ask of a given person, suppose you had a community of
10,000 people just like him and they lived 10,000 years -- starting from
high-school math, could they prove Fermat's Last Theorem? This is
significantly more than the effort by all the mathemeticians who ultimately
did build the solution.
Yes, but if we lived in a society where the average IQ was 160,
Fermat's Last Theorem wouldn't seem like as big a deal to you, and you
would probably use some other, higher gold standard, to define
"universal".
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