Status Updates From A Brief History of Intellig...

Breakthrough #4 complete, and onto speech next. Primates seemed to develop the ability to infer the intentions of others, learn from the skills others, and plan for future needs such as ripening fruits that would be competitive to forage. All this has been easier to grasp than the concepts of the earlier breakthroughs - I know what I'll have to review when I've finished

Theory of mind as an essential component of an integrated, "Detroit Become Human" level of AI... gPFC responsible?! I think this might be my favourite part of the brain - using our own explanation of intention to explain the intention of others once again feels like science fiction. But on a large enough timeline, a monkey on a typewriter could randomly type out all the works of Shakespeare.