The Intelligence of Things

This blog entry will start out as a placeholder for an thought before it escapes my mind.

The inherent intelligence of things in the natural world must be formalized in a language of expression to endow the same intelligence to the same thing to enable its existence in a virtual world.

Is the following a valid observation on which to build structures in a virtual world modeling a natural real world existence?

Natural and virtual things are the product of structured information.  Structured information is equal intelligence in either world.  In the virtual world however the abstraction of information from its physical binding in the real world object thing enable it to be managed without physical constraints

Abstract cognition is the foundation of human intelligence?

The foundation of machine intelligence?  Meaning artificial intelligence possessed by a physical thing creating abstract structures in a virtual world ?

A piece of wood knows it's own intelligence.  It used to have much greater intelligence when it was part of a tree.  As a distinct independent piece of wood it retains fundamental information intelligence.  Weight, weight bearing properties, size, ability to burn or depose, etc.  

Wood given greater intelligence knows how to be a chair.  A smarter chair knows how to recline.  There is intelligence educated into it.  It can have far greater intelligence when structured intelligence is built into it.   It's Value as a chair is a self aware intelligence absrtaction that is made possible by abstracting its virtual properties from its physical properties.  

Does that thought here anywhere?  I

Seems to be a rather simple step ahead as I sit at this picnic table and each of us express our virtual intelligence in a real world.

Which has the greater intelligence?  Me or the picnic table?  Don't know until I have had another cup of coffee.  

The original conceptual abstraction of a chair emerged as if from nowhere in the mind of someone tired of sitting on a rock.  It implemented itself to a form and function as a wooden product of the mind's intelligence in the real world because it had utility.

A tree could have grown itself into the form of a chair if it had utility to the tree. The utility to attract an occupant that would provide some benefit to the tree.

Smart tree.  It simply thinks at a slower level because it's intelligence is in the domain where physical properties of a thing cannot be extracted or separated from the logical properties of a thing.   A tree has  intelligence with the controlling factor of tight binding between physical and logical properties of adaptation.  Our intelligence employs a loose binding permitting rapid change of conceptual structures related to the physical world.  In the end however the physical world places a physical constraint on our control of things through the separation of their physical and logical properties.

Who is more intelligent?  Me or a tree?

Ultimately, which derives the greater utility through its metod of intelligence?

The one that adapts best to change in its own environment over time.  Failure to change existing physical/logical attributes that are dysfunctional leads to extinction.

http://www.glenpearson.ca/2015/03/devouring-social-capital/