“To The Egyptian, The Gods might be mortal; Nor was there any doubt that they might suffer while alive; The gods were also supposed to share in a life like that of Man, not only in Egypt but in most ancient lands. The Egyptian gods could not be cognisant of what passed on earth without being informed, nor could they reveal their will at a distant place except by sending a messenger;
The Gods, therefore, have no divine superiority to Man in conditions or limitations; they can only be described as pre-existent, acting intelligences, with scarcely greater powers than Man might hope to gain by magic or witchcraft of his own.”
“A.I. literature stresses the importance of recognising different types of intelligence.
It is no longer felt that ‘behaving like a human’ is a sufficient definition for intelligence. Cats possess a form of intelligence, albeit a different type to humans, and so do whales and crows and even plants.
Recognising this makes it possible to classify machines as intelligent, but intelligent in a different way to people.
When you avoid human-centric definitions of intelligence it becomes easier to speculate about alien intelligences, the type of intelligence that we might evolve into, or the intelligence that present-day AI might develop.”
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