Paper
The Polyhierarchic Model of Intelligence
Published Sep 1, 1987 · Keith Stearne
Journal of Information Technology
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Abstract
It has been said that we humans are `starfolle, creatures who have 'emerged from 'star-stuff'.1 This is a dramatic way of expressing one consequence of the current theory that all the chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium were synthesized in the interiors of stars billions of years ago. Such new perspectives on our place in the universe can have the emotional force of great imagery in literature. One thinks, for instance, of the famous lines in Act IV of The Tempest, during which Prospero declares: We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.' In his book The Future of Intelligence, Victor Serebriakoff explores the nature of intelligence in its broadest sense, and in the course of his exposition puts forward several ideas which provide just such new ways of evaluating our position in the scheme of things. In this critique I shall discuss these, and other issues he raises, relating them where I can to the work of others in the field. It would be presumptuous of me to pretend that what I offer here is any more than a very superficial treatment of the material involved.
The polyhierarchic model of intelligence suggests that humans are'starfolle,' creatures that emerged from'star-stuff', and offers new perspectives on our place in the universe.
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