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> You don't know what it is even if you dearly believe you do

Right, but you know enough -- of course! -- to say that I do not know.

I've written the first draft of a book on animal intelligence. I doubt neither you nor Carmack have even thought that a study of actually intelligent systems (animals) should even enter the conversation.

No no, of course, it's just going to be a modulo trick.




>Right, but you know enough -- of course! -- to say that I do not know.

I simply know that sincerely believing something to be so has no actual bearing on truth. I know that results are what matter because that is what we employ with each other. And because that's the only thing Evolution "cared" about.

>I've written the first draft of a book on animal intelligence.

That's good for you.

>I doubt neither you nor Carmack have even thought that a study of actually intelligent systems (animals) should even enter the conversation.

I do know that this study is not the be all end all. Why would I be concerned with following one example of biology to a T when even Nature itself does not (Flight and the bee and the bird amongst others).

>No no, of course, it's just going to be a modulo trick.

There is no trick. There is only what flies and what does not. Trick flying is not a distinction that exists. Reality does not play tricks.




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