A Brief History of Intelligence by Max S Bennet is an interesting novel about the development of Intelligence (not only human mind you!)!
One interesting thing (there are many!) you can see is that the average Fish has got this inbuilt capability which even the most important and really clever species; the bee does not have!
It knows the passage of time! It can tell time would have been more dramatic but that is not technically true!
In this novel he traces the development of the intelligence from the first ‘brain’ to the complex one we see in most of your skulls!
This is of course the base of explaining how the development leads to the development of AI! Now just like many computers; some people have the hardware but do not use it! Instead they read a ‘manual’ and follow the rules!
In the case of fish listen (sorry I heard it on the audible so that is stuck to my mind! Nothing fishy! You can READ!) to the experiment first.
You keep the fish in a tank and once in a while you test for this ‘conditioned’ reflex! In one experiment; the researcher puts on the light over a dark tank and gives a ZAP! Which is a short electric charge which shocks the fish! Very fishy and shocking! Now it does not harm the fish but it does feel the shock which is not pleasant!
So the next time the researcher puts on the light, sure enough; the fish escapes before the shock!
Now what is so great about this you say!?
Glad to see you are using your ‘hardware’!
Apparently the fish does not escape immediately after the light is switched on! But after some time!
At this point you must know that there is a time interval of around 5 seconds after the light is put on and the ZAP is delivered!
The fish escapes exactly FIVE seconds AFTER the light is switched on!
The fish and the time to zap! Like the meme goes! IT KNOWS!
Like always what we know is a DROP in the OCEAN of knowledge!
But who would have thought that fish would have time intelligence!
Now intelligence is the hallmark of a country! And the one who is the legend when it comes to intelligence and secret service is Ajit Kumar Doval!
That’s not fishy!
Shubh ratri!
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