AlienIntelligence
'Definition': AlienIntelligence is intelligence of a kind qualitatively different to our own. It doesn't neccessarily have to be possessed by an alien, and aliens do not necessarily have it. In fact nearly all aliens portrayed in science fiction have very human intelligence and concerns. Some of our friends may have intelligence that is alien to us.
As someone who doesn't really 'get music', I know there is a certain kind of understanding of music that I lack, that I am colour blind to. For me that kind of understanding is AlienIntelligence.
I know people who are two or more orders of magnitude more socially adept than I am. My friend Martin has a gift for making people feel at ease, fell wanted, appreciated, feel worthwhile. It's not entirely an alien way of thinking to me, but the qualitative difference is still pretty huge.
AlienIntelligence is central to why CollectiveIntelligence is a worthwhile goal. If everyone in a group thinks in the same way there is little point in thinking in a group, other than to get things done faster, by a linear speed up. But with diversity there has to be enough common ground for there to be communication.
Is AlienIntelligence based on a ReferenceFrame Series? Animals appear intelligent, emotional, aware, and almost everything a human is, except an animal lives in the current state while we as human dwell in the past and future, though we have the ability to live in the current state. Animals live for current state emotions, hungry, happy, pain, flight or fight. Humans dwell on what could of or what could be conditions (Prove me wrong). Then we think we feel based on the outcome. Taking this another level above these conditions adds to our ReferenceFrame Series. I though it was a CollectiveConscious, but that is a DirtyTerm. Its a term used by FortuneSeekers. The term aware is also misleading. Being aware of the environment or aware of your self. Animals are aware of the current conditions of the environment. Humans are too much into themselves to be aware of anything. As soon as you try to prove a point, you are automatically in the into yourself mode. Animals don't have the need to prove anything.
Externally aware, Internally aware, Collectively aware. Continue the Series.
Could it be as easy as:
Now, not(Now), Now(not(Now)), not(Now(not(Now))), etc..
I don't think so. -KaJoTra
Er... what? So you believe in the Myth of the NobleSavage as well?
Pull-lease--- Mammals are very conscious of the past as well as the future. If you have paid attention to dogs, cats, and even the most overated of mammals after the HumanAnimal itself, horses. They are aware of the past. Your cat may not understand why you do not like it sharpening its nails on your new sofa, but it does understand that if you see it doing so, you will get mad at it. It will still sharpen its nails on the couch when it wants to, but it will modify its behavior to do so only when it thinks it can get away with it, when it is fully awake (fully mentally cognitive).
I can think of many examples which show that mammals are easily cognitive of the past. Including animals that had such tramatic experiences that they'd freeze up in circumstances that reminded them of that nasty past experience.
It isn't so easy to come up with examples of species that do not have a mammal's complexity, but I can still think of a few. Heck, even the tropical fish I've kept learned the sounds and sights that meant food was about to be provided. That's cognation of the past. Future expectations based on past behaviour.
Animals have their own mental world. They have their own expressions of how they feel in their world. Some we can more easily understand then others. But if you spend time enough around animals, you should be able to understand that being.
To say that animals only live in the here and now is silly. Some animals without the mental thinking power certainly do. But the more mental ability the animal has, the more it lives in all three states... past, present, and future( expected and desired ). ---StarPilot
I believe that alien intelligence is a useful metaphor. The first step in intellectual growth is to acknowledge that you lack certain attributes and the second step is to learn them from observing others ( very tough.) Let's develop this thought some more. How do we even identify a capability in others that we do not possess? Surely, we would find it hard to observe what they are doing when we do not know that we lack that capability.