<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Thomas</b> <<a href="mailto:Thomas@thomasoliver.net">Thomas@thomasoliver.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I would hope that, at IQ 12,000 one would view reptilian complex<br><<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_brain">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_brain</a>>1 based issues of<br>dominance and submission as of little relevance. I guess social status
<br>works better than no motive at all (for getting smarter). I hope<br>something starts working for me! -- Thomas.</blockquote><div><br>I don't think there is any necessary correlation between intelligence and and the more "base" drives. Even if you could show that there is a correlation in the animal kingdom, that would just be a contingent fact of evolution. If we built AI's we could make a dumb one really kind, a smart one really vicious, or not give them any emotions or drives beyond what was needed for the task at hand. It is naive to imagine that every possible intelligent entity will somehow resemble a human or a lizard.
<br><br>Stathis Papaioannou<br></div><br></div><br>