[ExI] 1DIQ: an IQ metaphor to explain superintelligence

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 31/10/2025 12:28, John K Clark wrote:
> We can have a general sort of understanding of how our brain works but to have a perfect understanding a part of our brain would have to have a sort of internal map of the entire brain, and for it to be perfectthere would have to be a one to one correspondence between the map and the territory, but that would be impossible for something that is finite like the number of neurons in the human brain. However it would be possible for a proper subset of something infinite to have a oneto one correspondence with the entire set; then you could have such a perfect map with a one to one correspondence ...

You've completely lost me there, but I have two observations: There's no 
such thing as 'perfect understanding' except as a nebulous theoretical 
concept, and I don't think a one-to-one correspondence would be enough 
to understand something, or even be a relevant concept. We use large 
parts of our brains to process information from small parts of the 
world. You need a lot more than a single neuron to figure out what's 
going on in a single neuron.

Oh, three observations. We don't process data instantaneously. The same 
parts of the brain can be used to process information about something 
repeatedly over time, using feedback loops etc.

-- 
Ben

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