From a post on the Standard Upper Ontology list by Jon Awbrey, I shamelessly
copy an important chunk as food for thought:
"1.1.2 Intelligence, Knowledge, Execution
Intelligence, for my purposes, is characterized as a technical ability of
choice
in a situation 'as represented'. It is the ability to pick out a line on a
map,
to find a series of middle terms making connections between represented
positions.
In the situation that commonly calls it out, intelligence is faced with two
representations of position. This pair of pointers to points on a map are
typically interpreted as indices of current and desired positions. The two
images are symbols or analogues of the actual site and the intended goal of
a system. They themselves exist in a space that shadows the dynamic reality
of the agent involved. But the dynamic reality of the intelligent agent
forms
a manifold of states that subsists beneath its experience and becomes
manifest
only gradually and partially in the observations of that agent. It is among
the states of this basic manifold that all the real sites and goals of the
agent are located.
The concept of intelligence laid out here has been abstracted from
two capacities it both requires and supports: knowledge and execution.
Knowledge is the fund of available representations, the glove-box full of
maps.
Execution is the array of possible actions and the power of performing them,
the executive ability that directs motor responses in accord with the line
picked out on the map. To continue the metaphor, execution is associated
with the driving-gloves, which must be sorted out from the jumble of maps
and used to get a grip on the mechanisms of performance and control that
can actualize choices."
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