Entropic Intelligence

Intelligence, as we generally think of it, is simply a matter of processing speed, this is obvious if you consider artificial intelligence, which is a simple list of rules. An idiot following these rules of, say a chess program, could beat a grandmaster. Once you understand this, you can gain confidence in doing things slowly but correctly, and this is one reason why I perform monthly computer backups and general filing. It's a good way to keep things neat and in an ideal order, time consuming though it is.

Copying can create errors in itself, which need correction and care. It's a matter of entropy, so perhaps the real measure of the quality of intelligence is not speed, but accuracy, this action of reducing entropy, repairing errors. As with adding more detail than is actually present, as per my previous post, it is this entropic reduction which is the measure of genius.

It takes an increasing amount of energy to correct a mistake made early on. This energy is a sort of intelligence in itself, because its clarity of action, its correcting power, is the vital ingredient. One regret in my filing is not using ISO date standards in my dates. I date a lot of things; dates of painting this or that, each layer. My painting file alone will contain 4000 written dates or so in the 36,000 lines of text. It will take a lot of this intelligence-energy to fix this. This emphasises that things done slowly and carefully over a long period are much stronger and more powerful than things done quickly. Time itself has a sort of weight and power, a destructive force, as does space, because it is during transmission, motion, than errors occur.

My regular filing over many years amounts to a huge amount of work, and all of it, like all information storage systems, prone to slight errors. These require increasingly large amounts of intelligence-energy to repair. Some repairs are impossible because the pure data source is lost forever. It is by this method that all death in the universe takes place. All death, even that of and in people, is information death. All of the signs and faults of ageing are due to this loss of information (as such, I can assure anyone pursuing immortality that this is impossible). Of course, people, like all life are composite beings. Even cells are composite of smaller molecules. All life on Earth is intimately connected like one giant organism, our beliefs of individuality are naïve. Beings exist as much as a wave in the ocean; a pattern of apparent individuality.

Mark Sheeky, 30 June 2021