> If we are to discuss intelligence, we must first make our peace with
> the relationship between body and soul. Some, of course, are not aware
> that there is a problem. Let them be happy in their ignorance. Do not
> disturb.
>
> Others are aware of a pseudo-problem that they lay to a poor choice of
> words, a misuse of language. They tend to be very, very clever. They
> turn on a spigot, and a rush of words befogs the question.
>
> Soul (spirit, essence, psyche, mind, consciousness, awareness,
> intelligence, intellect, mentality, self, individuality, persona,
> personality, conscious mental field, self awareness, sentience,
> executive function).

> Entertained by my own EIMC wrote:
>

>> I the only statements of yours that I can't entirely concur with is your
>> one that expresses confidence in us being able to build sufficiently
>> complex and correctly adaptively self-organizing (brain mimicking)
>> machines in only two decades. The only chance that we may do so may be
>> in 50 to hundred years is if we find a way to 'let lose' a rapidly
>> automatically evolving AI-algorithmic entities that would then
>> necessarily/inevitably also endanger us slowly primarily/originally
>> evolved critters. ;>

>
> The "intelligence explosion". How do you think that could be avoided?
>
> http://alife.co.uk/essays/the_intelligence_explosion_is_happening_now/