Intelligence
Published on 10 Oct 2007 at 11:18 pm.
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A quote from my father’s blog (From the Back of the Room)…
The behaviorist measures the intelligence of a laboratory rat by how quickly it can learn to manuever through the halls of a maze in order to reach some tangible reward for it’s efforts. The reward is meant to provide for it a goal, something to work for, to entice it through the maze. The rat that manages to learn quickly and move through the maze directly to the treasure at the end is deemed the most intelligent. But what of the rat who ignores the reward offered by it’s human master and decides to explore instead, to linger and study and search, to discover all the possibilities that might exist in the maze.
-Rockne Knuth, 2007
