Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
I haven't read the original paper, but (speaking as a physicist) I'm always skeptical when physicists leap into extremely different disciplines and claim to have a grand insight that its specialists have never considered before.It could always be true: physics really does have a lot to contribute in many areas! But the burden of proof is very, very much on the physicists to justify the relevance of their approach.In this case, based only on this little summary, I have to wonder whether they are really explaining intelligence or whether they are identifying some broader natural principle for which intelligent behavior is just one manifestation. There may be something quite deep here, but I'm holding off on deciding what exactly it is.